Wikipedia's
affiliate marketing
entry includes the following sentence: "Although
many affiliate programs have terms of service that
contain rules against spam, this marketing method
has historically proven to attract abuse from
spammers."
This is very true —
affiliate marketing methods definitely attract
abuse from spammers.
Our recent posts
on
Facebook
and
YouTube
spam linked to cost per action (CPA) affiliate networks. We've come across
affiliates from several CPA incentive networks
while investigating social networking spam, and
one of the more interesting companies that we
frequently see abused is CPAlead.com.