{"id":5743,"date":"2010-05-14T12:19:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T10:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ylovephoto.com\/en\/?p=5743"},"modified":"2010-05-12T20:03:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T18:03:10","slug":"photo-scammers-the-naked-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/2010\/05\/14\/photo-scammers-the-naked-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo scammers: The naked truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"left_box\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23905174@N00\/2438005410\/\" title=\"Money at hand\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3224\/2438005410_6100c23246_m.jpg\" alt=\"Money at hand\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" title=\"Attribution License\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ylovephoto.com\/fr\/wp-content\/plugins\/photo-dropper\/images\/cc.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" border=\"0\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" align=\"absmiddle\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photodropper.com\/photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">photo<\/a> credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23905174@N00\/2438005410\/\/\" title=\"Don Hankins\" target=\"_blank\">Don Hankins<\/a><\/small><\/div>\n<p>It appears that -at least in some cases- many ads from Google (like the ones I display on my web sites) are presenting fraudulent business proposals. Usually they are recognizable by the fact that they makes too-good-to-be-true offers (half-price photo cameras or basement-sale prices for pro equipment).<\/p>\n<p>But it is not always easy to recognize this kind of situation. This is where <a href=\"http:\/\/exposedscammers.wordpress.com\/\">Exposed Scammers<\/a> comes handy. This is a small web site that is browsing the ads and tries to identify the scammers from our photo-related ads.<\/p>\n<p>One useful thing is that they also provide factual data to support their verdict (it&#8217;s not only a way to blindly flog a web site).<\/p>\n<p>Recommended reading. Not only because you may recognize an ad you noticed, but also because it shows how to detect your own scammers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you want to avoid those scammers<\/strong>, you can also go directly to those companies that I directly <strong>partner<\/strong> with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/search\/ss=Canon&#038;BI=4603&#038;KBID=5095\">Buy it from B&#038;H<\/a> (The Professional&#8217;s Source)<\/li>\n<li>Buy from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?%5Fencoding=UTF8&#038;site-redirect=&#038;node=3017941&#038;tag=yvesroumazeilles&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Amazon.com<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=yvesroumazeilles&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Acheter sur <a href=\"http:\/\/clk.tradedoubler.com\/click?p=44380&#038;a=1587422&#038;g=16423180&#038;url=http:\/\/online.carrefour.fr\/photo-video\/appareil-photo-numerique-compact\/\">Carrefour online<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>photo credit: Don Hankins It appears that -at least in some cases- many ads from Google (like the ones I display on my web sites) are presenting fraudulent business proposals. Usually they are recognizable by the fact that they makes too-good-to-be-true offers (half-price photo cameras or basement-sale prices for pro equipment). But it is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,72],"tags":[89,305],"class_list":["post-5743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buy","category-market","tag-online","tag-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}