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Whose Brother Is This? (14)

03-01-2017 04:59 AM #1 thuglife (Member)
Whose Brother Is This?

http://www.doctoroz.com/episode/shar...ainst-scammers

"Dr. Oz teams up with Shark Tank’s real estate mogul Barbara Corcoran to confront scammers tarnishing and profiting off of celebrities’ names and images."

03-01-2017 05:06 AM #2 johnaff (AMC Alumnus)

wow. looks like theyre after affiliates again...

03-01-2017 05:40 AM #3 Gary (Member)

Oh the irony is astonishing. Only in Merica.

03-01-2017 06:26 AM #4 adsflo (Member)

I LOL'ed at the internet detectives armed with whois.com

03-01-2017 06:40 AM #5 manu_adefy (Veteran Member)

Well, everyone knows there could be legal consequences to using someone else's image without their authorization. Shouldn't there also be some if you call yourself a doctor when you are a snake oil salesman?

03-01-2017 08:05 AM #6 whysoez (Member)

only makes $300k/year? lol

03-01-2017 01:46 PM #7 shizzlit (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by whysoez View Post
only makes $300k/year? lol
I was surprised by this as well, and they make it seem outrageous...

03-01-2017 02:23 PM #8 foussama (Member)

This is crazy, they even inspired me for new landing pages... Thanks Dr.Oz!

03-01-2017 02:23 PM #9 cbrughmans (Member)

Guys that do this have their company set up in hong kong, BVI, gibraltar or belize. Extremely hard to find who's behind the site to start with, and then if you do starting up a legal procedure in one of those tax havens will lead you nowhere

Quote Originally Posted by manu_adefy View Post
Well, everyone knows there could be legal consequences to using someone else's image without their authorization. Shouldn't there also be some if you call yourself a doctor when you are a snake oil salesman?

03-01-2017 08:17 PM #10 learn2grow ()

Dr Oz going after scammers, oh the irony .

03-02-2017 08:47 AM #11 whysoez (Member)

Things that made me scratch my head:

Forgetting to buy WHOIS protection for a shady website.
Agreeing to go on camera for any conversation
Claiming to make only "300k/year"
Everyone in the audience thinking 300k/year is a lot of money. (is it? Dr Oz makes that much a month).
Advertiser pitching to Barbara Corcoran like it's sharktank.
Everyone feeling sorry for the advertiser.

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Now affiliates pushing this offer can genuinely claim "as seen on Dr. OZ," since Dr. Oz literally discussed this product in his show.

03-02-2017 09:00 AM #12 shizzlit (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by whysoez View Post
Things that made me scratch my head:

Forgetting to buy WHOIS protection for a shady website.
As an advertiser having credit card processing, which the nutra trials of course do, you can't have WHOIS on your domain.
At least you need some shady ass processor then.

03-03-2017 02:53 AM #13 whysoez (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by shizzlit View Post
As an advertiser having credit card processing, which the nutra trials of course do, you can't have WHOIS on your domain.
At least you need some shady ass processor then.
hmm what do you mean? Assuming they are incorporated, any business assets (including the domain) should never be registered in a personal name

03-03-2017 07:28 AM #14 shizzlit (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by whysoez View Post
hmm what do you mean? Assuming they are incorporated, any business assets (including the domain) should never be registered in a personal name
Well sorry I think I missed your point then. I am not sure how it is in the United States when it comes to privacy of the CEO of a company, but where I am from in Europe this can be looked up pretty fast in an official database. This is also including personal address etc.

I just assumed she was looking up the CEO of the company and went there.

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