First of all I would like to say hello to all the members.
I would like to talk about the company Mediashakers. I can’t really call it a scam just yet because for a few months it made all payments according to schedule without any problems.
My problem is with the man leading this company, who goes by the name of Eyal Barad, who came to the conclusion that he can act as a dictator in his own little world.
Everything was going well, the ads were online , I haven’t received any sort of complaints from anyone up untill the 6-th of november, “coincidently” a payment date at Mediashakers. All of a sudden the man I mentioned decided that
for the last 66 days I commited some fraud , therefore put my account as inactive and confiscated 4400$ that he owed me for that period. All this without any sort of email or explanation.
Not being able to receive any response to my emails I got a very foggy response through some friends from a publisher organization called Casipa.org . All they could get out of this fellow is that the comapny probably closed my account for cause of fraud.
You don’t just go around confiscating 4400$ with arguments like “probable fraud”. You need to give solid arguments and proof. I have between 50k-100k unique visitors per day so I’m not some shmuck owing a blog in his mommy’s basement. In other words 4.4k in over 2 months at my traffic is not a stretch at all.
I think it’s more than obvious that the individual decided to palm my earnings in his own pockets because those funds don’t just vanish into thin air and they sure as hell don’t return to the advertiser after more then two months .
I opened this thread as a warning to all of you that are currently working or thinking of working in the future with Mediashakers. You risk of losing your earnings at any moment depending on which side of the bed this Eyal Barad wakes up on the morning of the payment.
I will write about them on every forum I can find and I will make an official complaint to yahoo as companies such as Mediashakers bring a lot of damage to the image of Yahoo’s ad network system.
… and in skype he is asking me to remove my post for the sole reason that he made his job and informed me that my account
was disabled 17 days after the actual event happened.
He still refused to give me any reasons about why my account was disbaled and my earnings confiscated.
[12:17:24] LiveSport: hello
[12:19:40] Adi Hurwitz: Hi
[12:27:45] Adi Hurwitz: i will have to check this issue and get back to you
[12:29:49] Adi Hurwitz: i assure you we take this business seriusley
[12:30:10] Adi Hurwitz: i will let you know once i have an answer for you
[12:33:59] Adi Hurwitz: but i have to ask you to stop writing about MediaShakers
[12:34:16] LiveSport: because u respond i stop already
[12:35:11] LiveSport: and i aspect to get back on me with some answer
[12:39:15] Adi Hurwitz: i assure you i will give you an answer to why we deactivated your account
[12:39:41] LiveSport: ok
[12:39:46] LiveSport: tnks
[12:40:04] Adi Hurwitz: thank you for letting me know
[13:41:32] Adi Hurwitz: i see that you didn’t remove the posts you wrote about MediaShakers
[13:42:02] LiveSport: [12:33] Adi Hurwitz: << but i have to ask you to stop writing about MediaShakers >>
[13:42:10] LiveSport: we dont speack abouth remuve
[13:42:27] Adi Hurwitz: of course this incluse removing the posts
[13:43:10] Adi Hurwitz: i promised you an answer about why we deactivated your account, i assure you, you will get an answer about why we did so
[13:43:39] LiveSport: il kepp the post update leting evreyone to know if u pay me or not so people know u are trusted or not that is the think abouth publisher forum
[13:47:37] Adi Hurwitz: i ask you again to remove the post
[13:48:15] LiveSport: i am indeed going to admit that you answered… but that’s all… you still haven’t given me any justification as to why my account was closed and my earnings for over 2 months confiscated…
after this he go ofline and till today after more than 24 hours no update from him …
2300 us on september, 1700 on october and at least 400 on november betwen 1-6 november , in november i dont have the revenue saved and now it wont work to see the datailes
that’s what happend to my friend!
this should be a lesson to everyone not to deal with Media shakers.
I know there are other threads about media shakers not paying
Ya they are scammers. I remember I worked with them for a few months years back when they were new and of course after paying me for 1 month and promising to pay the rest. They never did.
If it was a big amount I was going to take them to small claims court, it’s expensive as it is to live.
the only whey this scammers will no longer exist is if we are united and spred the word
and tell publisher ho we work and are trusted and ho are not, we are start and publisher’s organization, non profit
we are groing and manny user come to become member and sher his experience
Hmmm. MediaShakers are the only people who pay me regularly, month after month for the last 2+ years. Maybe I’m lucky I only use them as a remnant network, and never earn more than about $50 with them.
it will come a day when they will stop your earnings for 2 months and then you will ask yoursel why u dont remuve them , even if u see post abouth they are scam , cause they are …
After i found that manager from them accidentaly Adi Hurwitz and after he simply send me an email leting me know all i show u all up in the post never heard of him , and again they donth have nobody to speack with me … they act like a scam companny , the worst is that manny are using them and manny did not know they will be scamed soon cause thats what mediashaker … or betther media[scamer] is …
I just found out that you pulled a fraud on them (via digital point)
and that was their comment
The claim that fellow member Livesport is complaining about is simply a pressure tactic in order to try and get us to pay for fraudulent activity. We we will not succumb to such threats and pressure tactics.
The facts are as follows:
This publisher applied to us with a URL www.livesportsuk.com and was approved.
Subsequently we found abnormal activity on the account and sent an email after not seeing our tags on this URL.
We got 12,046,656 impressions although we could not find our tags on http://www.livesportsuk.com/
The publisher did not reply to our requests to send a URL of a page were we can find our tags.
The site’s Alexa rank is not in tune with the amount of impressions we received.
http://www.livesportsuk.com/ is inactive. The website was removed shortly after we asked to see were our ads are running.
This is not the first time we see this type of scam. The web site was identical in structure, design and content to other sites we’ve seen.
Mediashakers has been around for many years. We are a reliable company and we have a great responsibility to our advertisers and partners. We want to make sure that fraudsters like this don’t ruin it for everyone as ‘it takes only one thief to ruin the party for everyone’.
they are verry stupid that is not my website , my website is <snip> , the website where i have tags from u,
do not try to escape MS are SCAM … read here also <snip>]
ms scam . STOP
