Is This Fraud? - Need Help (Same IP's For All AOL Leads)

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  • hershie
    Confirmed User
    • Jun 2002
    • 4642

    #1

    Is This Fraud? - Need Help (Same IP's For All AOL Leads)

    I am advertising with a Cost Per Acquisition network paying per unique lead, and dozens of the same leads from AOL email addresses have the same IP. Can this be legit even though the people reside in different parts of the USA?
  • spunkmaster
    Confirmed User
    • Jan 2004
    • 2052

    #2
    AOL went to regional IP's about 18 months ago so don't rule all of them bogus just based on the IP.

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    • kmanrox
      aka K-Man
      • Oct 2001
      • 29295

      #3
      aol uses proxies so you will get a kazillion ppl using the same IP
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      • JFPdude
        Confirmed User
        • Jan 2002
        • 4027

        #4
        Originally posted by hershie
        I am advertising with a Cost Per Acquisition network paying per unique lead, and dozens of the same leads from AOL email addresses have the same IP. Can this be legit even though the people reside in different parts of the USA?

        If they are from aol email yeah they'd have the same IP... Because with the way aol is setup with their email now most of it stays on their server so the ip is probably being pulled from the mail server at AOL.

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        • hydro
          Confirmed User
          • Dec 2003
          • 4216

          #5
          you should expect that, look up the ip to make sure its an aol proxy though

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          • hershie
            Confirmed User
            • Jun 2002
            • 4642

            #6
            Originally posted by JFPdude
            If they are from aol email yeah they'd have the same IP... Because with the way aol is setup with their email now most of it stays on their server so the ip is probably being pulled from the mail server at AOL.
            So if the person clicked from their AOL email message to my html landing page and filled out a form with their contact info. that generates the lead, your response still is valid?

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            • JFPdude
              Confirmed User
              • Jan 2002
              • 4027

              #7
              Originally posted by hershie
              So if the person clicked from their AOL email message to my html landing page and filled out a form with their contact info. that generates the lead, your response still is valid?
              No. However if they are all from the same area the regional ip response also posted here is valid. I believe it was spunkmaster that gave that part of the answer.

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              • hershie
                Confirmed User
                • Jun 2002
                • 4642

                #8
                It's a miserable experience dealing with those performance based mainstream affiliate ad networks. I've spent tens of thousands over the past several months and gotten utter crap leads. I disapprove 95% of the affiliates that request to display my campaign but I still can't weed out the cheaters. Ugh.

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                • hershie
                  Confirmed User
                  • Jun 2002
                  • 4642

                  #9
                  Thank you spunkmaster, KMan, JFPdude and hydro for your responses. They were very helpful.

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                  • JFPdude
                    Confirmed User
                    • Jan 2002
                    • 4027

                    #10
                    Hershie hit me up on ICQ 44-33-144

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                    • pstation
                      Confirmed User
                      • Jul 2003
                      • 1135

                      #11
                      If you want the real ip address of AOL surfers, then use SSL

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                      • Steen2
                        Confirmed User
                        • Feb 2004
                        • 7662

                        #12
                        I got the same host and IP address on one member that looks to be fraud (multiple sign ups).

                        All from the same state though...
                        ICQ: 2262.73945

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                        • hershie
                          Confirmed User
                          • Jun 2002
                          • 4642

                          #13
                          Originally posted by JFPdude
                          Hershie hit me up on ICQ 44-33-144
                          Thanks for your time on ICQ. That was a rewarding conversation for me.

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