pulse360 why the fuck are they asking for scanned copy of my credit card?

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ok so i signed up for pulse360 and they ask for a scanned copy of my cc (as well as my ID) for verification. wouldn't i be exposing my cc details if i do so?
 


Are they not getting those digits one way or another?

Simple answer:
Fraud Protection
(For both you and them)
 
Some places uses this way of authenticating users, I don't see a problem with it from your side. You can scramble away a good portion of the digits of the CC number and you can scramble the CCV number as well. Usually they have some directions for this.
 
Your CC is one thing, they'll be getting that anyways, but your ID? Not a hope in hell...
 
so they know where to charge the clickfraud that they plan on billing you for, duh.

have fun getting 1 click and getting billed for like 23.
 
so they know where to charge the clickfraud that they plan on billing you for, duh.

have fun getting 1 click and getting billed for like 23.

Yeah, Pulse360 has brutal click fraud. Some of the worst I've seen.
 
Yeah, Pulse360 has brutal click fraud. Some of the worst I've seen.

we really only work with main stream publishers like MSNBC, Weather.com, USA Today etc. Those types of sites are not going to fraud you. If you are seeing click discrepancies though please let me know so I can have someone look into it for you. I can tell you we really work hard to insure our network is clean and we don't work with second and third tier ad networks like so many other companies do.
Send me your info and I will look at your account and see what is going on.
 
we really only work with main stream publishers like MSNBC, Weather.com, USA Today etc. Those types of sites are not going to fraud you. If you are seeing click discrepancies though please let me know so I can have someone look into it for you. I can tell you we really work hard to insure our network is clean and we don't work with second and third tier ad networks like so many other companies do.
Send me your info and I will look at your account and see what is going on.
Though I haven't seen this as much lately, the problem is that a lot of the ads on P360 actually get INDEXED by the search engine. When I ran a month or so ago, my (non-biz opp) landing page was actually getting clicks from people searching on Google, finding the persons old ad/redirect, then getting redirected to my site which occupied that slot.
site:pulse360.com inurl:clickthrough - Google Search
Though I haven't seen it in a bit. It looks like 99% of em now don't have any actual text, so they aren't likely as to get hit with searches/SE crawlers.
 
if/when you are seeing traffic from sources that you don't like you just need to notify your rep. we can identify where this traffic is coming from and remove it. Also there is no guarantee that you would even be charged for this traffic. we pre-filter every click in our system and it of course has to pass certain levels before it becomes a chargable click.
 
if/when you are seeing traffic from sources that you don't like you just need to notify your rep. we can identify where this traffic is coming from and remove it. Also there is no guarantee that you would even be charged for this traffic. we pre-filter every click in our system and it of course has to pass certain levels before it becomes a chargable click.
Yup. Wasn't saying I was being charged, just saying what could've added to the perception.
Oh yes. Also: since pulse360 traffic doesn't generally carry a referrer, it's a lot harder to detect click fraud on our side.
 
ok so i signed up for pulse360 and they ask for a scanned copy of my cc (as well as my ID) for verification. wouldn't i be exposing my cc details if i do so?

no, its pretty standard if you've tripped some kind of credit/id check.
it happens to me all the time with my UK or offshore credit cards and my asia ips, usually hosting/domain reg stuff.