The Fraud of the GPT (Get Paid To) World

With the threat of fraud looming over the Get Paid to (GPT) industry, it leaves one to wonder where the fraud is actually taking place. In the obvious food chain, the easiest to blame is the GPT site member since they are at the bottom and at everyone's mercy. This however may not always be the case. There are four key components in the food chain of the GPT world, the member, the site owner, the affiliate, and the advertiser.

For those of you that do not understand how this works the advertiser pays the affiliate for lucrative leads to a product. The product that is offered by the advertiser could be an IPod, movie tickets, a plasma TV basically anything that the advertiser is trying to sell. The affiliate takes these advertisements, turns them into incentive offers, and makes them available to the site owners. The site owners the put these offers on their sites and make them available to their members. The members do the necessary requirements to be paid for doing the offer.

Even though there are the four obvious levels that fraud can be committed in the GPT world the easiest and most likely to blame is the member. I am not saying that members do not commit fraud on these sites but they are also the easiest to use as escape goats when others that are higher up in the food chain are committing fraud as well. The site owners commit fraud by claiming that offers are denied by the affiliates when in fact they are not. When this happens the site owner not only pockets all of the money paid by the affiliate but they also run the risk of getting the member accused of fraud as well. Legitimate site owners will not due this. They understand the importance of having committed members to their site and are not out to make a quick buck off of someone.

The affiliates can claim that the offer was denied as an invalid lead from the advertiser. Whether it was or was not is hard to say. Site owners are left to the mercy of the affiliates. If they ask for proof or accuse an affiliate of wrong doing they run the risk of having their accounts cancelled. The advertiser is at the top of the GPT food chain. Ultimately they are who decides whether the member completing the offer is a valid lead or not. They answer to no one. They are the who, what, and why that GPT sites exist.

So as a member when your offer is denied you might want to think about who it was actually denied by. The site owner, the affiliate, or the advertiser because as long as you start receiving all that junk mail that goes along with doing the offer it made it to the top where it should have. But someone is not playing fair from the top of the food chain down to you.