Was Shoemoney’s YSM Account The Victim Of Sabotage?
Misc. December 15th. 2007, 2:39am
So here I am thinking as to why Yahoo would come out and say “It is not your fault, but we have to terminate your account” to Shoemoney. There are several email responses listed on his site in regards to Yahoo Search Marketing - ‘We Know We suck’ in which Michelle tells Jeremy that his account has a 65% fraudulent charge rate, it is not your fault, but we will be terminating your account. What in the hell kind of statement is that? Michelle said that Yahoo could not tie discrete clicks to the fraudulent sign ups. You would think that a company the size of Yahoo would have there stuff in order. I guess I am wrong by thinking this. They cannot keep track of referring URL’s from Commission Junction, they cannot detect the use of that many fraudulent credit cards, and they would not assign him another ID to basically make him a new account. I was surprised by this and to top it all off last summer he was in Yahoo’s top 3 for monthly earnings.
Everyone in the industry knows who Shoemoney is, he has made a name for himself weather you think it is good or bad. So with the fame can come the hater’s, or the people who are either jealous or have a grudge against him. Who is to say you could not hire someone in another country to fraudulently sign up using stolen credit card information. There are forums you can go to and actually purchase these types of services I am sure. As bad as that sounds, it is true. Instead of attacking the person publicly and making a name for your self, they could have just out sourced this sabotage attack on his Yahoo Search Marketing account by signing up using the stolen credit cards. Imagine the damage you could do to so many other big account holders.
The truth is that Yahoo needs to get there shit straight, they know they are falling even further behind Google as to being the dominate search engine. With poor support for there top money makers, a tracking system that cannot fully track referring URL’s and shutting down an account even after they admitted it was not his fault. Wow, what kind of system are you people running over there? That many degrees in one building and you pull a stunt like this? Yahoo you need to get a bigger paddle, because you are falling downstream faster then your arms can move with stunts like this.
I could be wrong but who is to stop someone from “carding” on the Yahoo Network to get other accounts shut down like this. My answer is simple, nobody because Yahoo seems to not have full control over there own system and how it is run. What are your thoughts on that, do you think Shoemoney was a victim of his own success and someone sabotaged his account on purpose? I would love to hear what everyone else thinks.
