Complaint Review: IJango - Charlotte North Carolina

Ijango is BAD for Google Content Network Advertisers

This post is a public service announcement aimed at advertisers who use the Google Content Network.

A new MLM scheme called iJango has recently reared it's ugly head, and it directly threatens your ROI. Unfortunately, iJango was able to get a Google Adsense account, even though it clearly violates Adsense program policies. If you read the policies page, please notice the 2nd topic labeled Encouraging Clicks. It states the following:

Encouraging Clicks

Publishers may not ask others to click their ads or use deceptive implementation methods to obtain clicks. This includes, but is not limited to, offering compensation to users for viewing ads or performing searches, promising to raise money for third parties for such behavior or placing images next to individual ads.

The part I put in boldface describes what iJango is all about.

Ijango is a hacked up version of Omar Al Zabir's Dropthings, a free, open source, AJAX web portal. An easy way to prove this is by simply doing a site:president.ijango.com query in Google. The person programming iJango forgot to change the built-in meta descriptions, and Google indexed it the last time it crawled the site. In case you are catching this article after they fixed it, here is a screenshot of the query at the time this article was written:

Proof that iJango is using the Free, Open Source, portal script called Dropthings

A month before it actually launched, there was a lot of hype and propaganda generated by the people behind it. It has been pitched as a way for people to make money by using the internet, viewing ads, and performing searches. Here is a link to their latest video, and it is a great example of what I'm talking about: http://www.ijango.biz

The type of people who are falling for this scheme all have the same type of mental deficiency. They are all ignorant as to how internet advertising works, and they have a disturbing sense of entitlement to YOUR online advertising dollars. They all believe that this is some revolutionary idea that has never been done, and that they are all going to become millionaires by simply surfing the internet. Ijango is nothing more than the old paid to surf scheme, wrapped up in a new and shiny package, and being sold as something else. It's one of those accepted scams in the sense that it's a little bit of truth mixed in with a lot of lies, and pulls the wool over the eyes of the ignorant. The good news is that it has not worked since it launched on Saturday. The bad news is you've got an army of brainwashed, get rich quick people chomping at the bit ready to run up your CPM ads and click your CPC ads, so that they can GET PAID!

What can I do about the iJango threat?

Glad you asked, because that's the whole purpose of this post. The most important thing you can do is to add ijango.com to your site exclusion list. Doing this will ensure your advertising dollars are protected from the people that feel they are entitled to it for doing nothing!

Cameron Sharpe, the founder of iJango, has run multiple Dating Services and Get Rich pyramid schemes in the past. In addition to currently being bankrupt and owning no residence or car, he has an outstanding warrant for his arrest in Dallas County, has had multiple judgements against him for Fraud and Deception, was recently found guilty for non-payment of child support for one of his five children fathered from four women, and has lost all parental rights to his children.

Cameron has falsely stated his technology is proprietary, that he had 70 programmers working night and day to complete it, and he has filed an entry to have it patented. Investigation proves this is not true and the technology is generally available for free on the internet.

Cameron also indicates he is "Powered by Google" and that he also has partnerships with Yahoo, MSN, Bing, Amazon and many others. A call into Public Relations departments for these companies verify these are also untrue claims.

Cameron also has a history of stealing credit cards, sexual harrassment, issuing bad checks, not paying employees, and cocaine and alcohol abuse.

JMB

Dallas, Texas

U.S.A.