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[Circle of Life]

Originally Posted by Cristo Meyers

1.) Date and time ad was visible: 01/05/2012 2:13 pm

2:) Region (Pick one: USA, Canada, Europe, or Rest of the World): USA

3:) Location of ad (Top box or bottom box): Top

4:) Brief description of objectionable content (including a name or other identifying characteristic): "Death of the Mobile?" It's an ad for a "Free presentation" about the mobile market/stock market. Most likely a scam site.

As an addendum to the above, the site also creates a pop-up prompt when you try to leave in an attempt to redirect you to the site.

[The Giant]

Advertiser blocked.

[Artemis97]

1) 10PM EST, 1/5/2012
2) USA
3) Bottom Box
4) "Farmville Champ" offering fast level up, green with orange text. It looks like one of those gold-farming type schemes.

[The Giant]

After some research, I've determined that it's not a "gold-farming"-type scheme, but rather a strategy guide PDF for FarmVille that is being sold. As far as I can tell, that doesn't violate any of our policies, so no action taken.

[Cristo Meyers]

1.) Date and time ad was visible: 01/15/2012 4:50 pm

2:) Region (Pick one: USA, Canada, Europe, or Rest of the World): USA

3:) Location of ad (Top box or bottom box): Top

4:) Brief description of objectionable content (including a name or other identifying characteristic): "Thompson Cigar" It's an ad for a cigar shop.

[Roland St. Jude]

Originally Posted by The Giant

...And please, no double reporting or chatter about reported ads. That just makes it harder to find legitimate reports. All other posts will be deleted.

Sheriff: Double report and chatter posts deleted.

[Silverraptor]

1) Date and Time ad was visible: 1/16/12; 11:22 pm

2) Region: USA

3) Location: Bottom

4) Description: Starcraft 2 Secrets. Being a starcraft 2 player, I clicked to satisfy my curiosity. My scam radar was going off like crazy when the words "100% legal" and "Won't get banned" was plastered on every wall, floor, ceiling, counter-tops, and toliets of this website.

[Ceric]

1) Date and Time ad was visible: 10:30 PST (18:30 GMT), Jan 17th 2012
2) Region: USA
3) Location: Bottom
4) Description: A zombie pulling a woman's string bikini (...or possibly just a string...) with its teeth. Text is "The Zombie Years".

[Dimonite]

1) Date and time ad was visible: 01/17/2012 5:53 pm

2) Region (Pick one: USA, Canada, Europe, or Rest of the World): USA

3) Location of ad (Top box or bottom box): bottom

4) Brief description of objectionable content (including a name or other identifying characteristic): "The Zombie Years". Depicts a zombie removing, with its teeth, a bikini bottom/panties from a woman who is clearly nude, although the chest and face are not shown. Upon further examination, the comic itself contains a (rather cartoony) depiction of a nude woman a few issues in.

[The Glyphstone]

1) Date and time ad was visible: 01/17/2012 5:53 pm

2) Region (Pick one: USA, Canada, Europe, or Rest of the World): USA

3) Location of ad (Top box or bottom box): bottom

4) Brief description of objectionable content (including a name or other identifying characteristic): In addition to above, the comic is riddled with graphic profanity and a fair amount of artistically rendered gore.

[The Giant]

Tobacco ad: No action taken. Tobacco is legal, and the site doesn't sell to minors. Weird, but not inappropriate.

Starcraft II ad: This seems to be another PDF strategy guide, similar to the Farmville site. No action taken.

Zombie Years ad: The ad was not really SFW anyway, but the site itself features a lot of graphic material. Advertiser blocked.

[Joseph Silver]

1.) Date and time ad was visible: January 18, 2012
2.) Region (Pick one: USA, Canada, Europe, or Rest of the World): USA
3.) Location of ad (Top box or bottom box): Bottom
4.) Brief description of objectionable content (including a name or other identifying characteristic): This is an obvious scam, selling something that is freely available. It claims that Starcraft pros don't like the author sharing his secrets when in reality most pros freely share information with others through legitimate sites like TeamLiquid.net.

[Jimor]

Originally Posted by Joseph Silver

1.) Date and time ad was visible: January 18, 2012
2.) Region (Pick one: USA, Canada, Europe, or Rest of the World): USA
3.) Location of ad (Top box or bottom box): Bottom
4.) Brief description of objectionable content (including a name or other identifying characteristic): This is an obvious scam, selling something that is freely available. It claims that Starcraft pros don't like the author sharing his secrets when in reality most pros freely share information with others through legitimate sites like TeamLiquid.net.

Read the post above yours.

[The Giant]

Your definition of a "scam" is not the same as mine. There's no evidence that the site is harmful or in any way not delivering what it promises (that is, to sell a specific book with given information in it). If they have a PDF book that they want to sell, that is legal, even if the material is available elsewhere. There are a lot of how-to books on the market despite there being free internet resources that can tell you much the same information.

Bottom line, I'm not going to take the time to review the accuracy of their marketing copy for possible misstatements. I'm not the Better Business Bureau. The site is physically safe to visit, unless someone has information that I don't. Whether people want to buy the product listed is their own business.

And please don't report ads that I made a ruling on in the post before. The only reason to bring up an ad I've already cleared is if you have new information, such as if the site was flagged for malware by your computer.

[Koury]

1.) Date and time ad was visible: January 26, 2012
2.) Region (Pick one: USA, Canada, Europe, or Rest of the World): USA
3.) Location of ad (Top box or bottom box): Top
4.) Brief description of objectionable content (including a name or other identifying characteristic): Ad for "The Lydian Option." Text bubble in the left hand image includes two curse words.

[The Giant]

Bid canceled, but the advertiser has been told he can rebid with a different image that doesn't feature swearing.

[TheCountAlucard]

1.) Date and time ad was visible: 1/27/2012, 2:47 PM
2.) Region (Pick one: USA, Canada, Europe, or Rest of the World): USA
3.) Location of ad (Top box or bottom box): Top box
4.) Brief description of objectionable content (including a name or other identifying characteristic): Mild swear, "ass." Not sure if that's worth reporting, but I figure it's better to be safe than sorry in that regard. Features a guy literally kicking his own rear end.

[Dusk Eclipse]

1.) Date and time ad was visible: 2nd of February 2:28 PM GMT -6
2.) Region (Pick one: USA, Canada, Europe, or Rest of the World): Rest of the World
3.) Location of ad (Top box or bottom box): Top Box
4.) Brief description of objectionable content (including a name or other identifying characteristic): Reads Get paid to click, looks like possibly spamor fishing site.

Image Scrubbed. As mentioned before, please describe the content and don't post the image. We don't want to give the advertiser more views of their ad.

[Surrealistik]

1.) Date and time ad was visible: Feb 2nd 6:11 PM GMT -5
2.) Region (Pick one: USA, Canada, Europe, or Rest of the World): Canada
3.) Location of ad (Top box or bottom box): Top Box
4.) Brief description of objectionable content (including a name or other identifying characteristic): Link to probable scam site not unlike every other prior ad featured on this site about becoming a game tester:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...2124628AA5qVpb

http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/becomeagametester.com

[Surfing HalfOrc]

1.) Date and time ad was visible: Feb 8th 2:50 PM GMT +9
2.) Region (Pick one: USA, Canada, Europe, or Rest of the World): Rest of the World (South Korea)
3.) Location of ad (Top box or bottom box): Top Box
4.) Brief description of objectionable content (including a name or other identifying characteristic): Blue ad, Bingo Cabin, No deposit required, Play now. Hover text says "Play Today and Get $20 Free!!!"

Looks like a gambling site. Not sure if this is allowed. If so allowed, never mind.

[Hazzardevil]

1.) Date and time ad was visible: 22nd of Febuary, 18:10 GMT
2.) Region (Pick one: USA, Canada, Europe, or Rest of the World): Europe
3.) Location of ad (Top box or bottom box):Top Box
4.) Brief description of objectionable content (including a name or other identifying characteristic): It is a website that sells accounts at certain levels or will level up your characters for you in Star Wars; The Old Republic for Real Money.

[Serpentine]

Originally Posted by Hazzardevil

1.) Date and time ad was visible: 22nd of Febuary, 18:10 GMT
2.) Region (Pick one: USA, Canada, Europe, or Rest of the World): Europe
3.) Location of ad (Top box or bottom box):Top Box
4.) Brief description of objectionable content (including a name or other identifying characteristic): It is a website that sells accounts at certain levels or will level up your characters for you in Star Wars; The Old Republic for Real Money.

Supplementary: appears to just give you walkthroughs and guides that allow you to level up fast, rather than selling accounts, but also comes up with that "Are you SURE you want to leave this page?" message thing when you try to close the tab.

[The Giant]

Yeah, like the FarmVille one from a while ago, this seems to just be an overpriced, overhyped digital strategy guide. The window keeping you from clicking off is really annoying, but not actually illegal (it's not like one of those where it tells you that you have a virus or something). So no action taken unless someone has more evidence.

I didn't catch the two reports before that one and I can't find them now, so if they come back, anyone who wants to report them again, can.

[Gensh]

1.) Date and time ad was visible: 3/3/12, 3:46 EST
2.) Region (Pick one: USA, Canada, Europe, or Rest of the World): USA
3.) Location of ad (Top box or bottom box):Top Box
4.) Brief description of objectionable content (including a name or other identifying characteristic): Anime girl in NSFW bikini; links to coolpicsbro.com

[Mystic Muse]

1.) Date and Time the ad was visible 3:45 PM EST
2.) Region USA
3.) Location of Ad Top box
4.) Brief description of objectionable content An anime girl in a really tight bathing suit. The link leads to a site with a bunch of seemingly random pictures, a few of which seemed to be Not Safe for work.

[The Giant]

Already seen and banned by me.

[TheCountAlucard]

1.) Date and Time the ad was visible 4:20 PM CST
2.) Region USA
3.) Location of Ad Top box
4.) Brief description of objectionable content Webcomic with some objectionable content.

[Shades of Gray]

1.) Date and time ad was visible: 5:20 EST, March 4th, 2012
2.) Region (Pick one: USA, Canada, Europe, or Rest of the World): Canada
3.) Location of ad (Top box or bottom box): Top Box
4.) Brief description of objectionable content (including a name or other identifying characteristic): Ad for the webcomic "Hatefarm" featuring a scantily clad goth chick. Many strips of that comic are NSFW.

[The Giant]

The very first page that link brings me to featured NSFW material. So, advertiser blocked.

[Gryffon]

1.) Date and Time the ad was visible 9:28 EST
2.) Region USA
3.) Location of Ad Top box
4.) Brief description of objectionable content Banner ad contains images of scantily clad women, not particularly appropriate for work. Directs to lolclicks.net