Hydra Network hydranetwork.com will not pay you for your hard earned leads! Hydra does not pay, their company is going bankrupt. Internet
This post is meant to warn any affiliates or future affiliates currently working with Hydra Network, or hydranetwork.com. They scammed me out of $700 in leads for an offer that i was rightfully promoting via paid search. The owner Mason Wiley and Affiliate manager Barbra Mayo are very un-professional and will trash talk you on public forums if you speak up about their wrong-doing. Hydra network is scamming their affiliates left and right. Ever since the company was found to be going bankrupt they've made it very hard to get a hold of anyone by phone.
Warning: Hydra network will not pay you! Don't bother signing up with the scammers.
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HydraMason
Beverly Hills,California,
United States of America
Poster committed fraud against consumers - and we caught him
#2UPDATE Employee
Wed, February 17, 2010
We did not pay this publisher/affiliate for the fraudulent online ads he placed, though we did pay him for some other legitimate advertising traffic.
He ran a well-known scam form of advertising to promote a credit report offer by placing a job posting on Craigslist and having the ad indicate that a credit report was required to apply for the job - most likely a job that didn't really exist - and then provided a handy link to the advertiser's web site. Because of this and other well-known scams, our company and nearly all others disallows any Craigslist advertising in our terms and conditions.
Though the complainant in this case swears he never ran ads on Craigslist, the advertiser provided recordings of calls of consumers who replied to ads placed by this publisher. The consumers say they were answering a job posting on Craigslist. As this was in clear violation and a clear case of fraud, the advertiser asked to remove this publisher from campaign and invalidate all his leads.
Interestingly, this same publisher posted this same complaint on WickdFire, an online forum where affiliates/publishers congregate. Unfortunately for him, this community of his peers was well informed on what he tried to pull and turned against him.
Here are some quotes from that forum:
"dude, you're a frauding piece of (expletive).... and your tactics are years old. fail on SO many levels"
"Dont come knocking here either, we actively answer CL (Craigslist) posts to find you guys. Mason feel free to PM me his info so i can ban him from our network too."
and there are many more like that.
This affiliate did not "rightfully" promote the offer and is angry he got caught. In fact he threatened our company that he would make postings to damage our reputation, and this is one of those attempts.
Our online advertising network is constantly monitoring advertising performed by our affiliates to weed out exactly this type of fraud as it deceives consumers, harms our business, and casts all of Internet advertising in a negative light. This poster - like many others we have caught - did not like being caught and is trying to do what he can to get even.
If the poster, despite all this, insists on persisting with his baseless claims, I believe he should provide proof. My company is prepared to provide proof that it was indeed fraud.