Adscend Denies Facebook, AG Allegations - bridgesshen1994

Adscend Media, the defendant in lawsuits filed this hebdomad by Facebook and the President Washington attorney general, on Friday denied the allegations in the complaints and shifted blame to its affiliates.

"At nary time did we engage in the activity alleged in the complaints," Adscend said in a statement.

During a press conference in Seattle on Thursday, Facebook and the Washington state attorney universal same that Adscend was behind a so-called "click jacking" scam that has now been out of use. In one example, a Facebook user would see a link to a picture along a friend's wall. If the user clicked on the link, a pop out up would look asking the user to verify their age. Clicking happening the verification box, the user would unknowingly share the video on their own Facebook bulwark.

After clicking the box, another page would pop up, ultimately taking the user to an advertizer's site that in some cases asked the user to supply personal info or buy up items. During the calendar month of February 2022, the scam tricked more than 280,000 Facebook users into visiting advertiser pages, the Washington suit alleges.

Adscend is hired by advertisers that pay the company each time someone clicks connected their page operating theatre advertisement. Adscend in turn often hires affiliates to drive traffic to the sites.

It's those affiliates that Adscend is now pointing a finger at. "We are undertaking an investigation to determine whether any of Adscend Media's affiliates involved in the activity alleged aside the Attorney Miscellaneous's office and Facebook. If they did, we are amply sure that the activity was conducted without the company's knowledge," the company said in its statement.

In the lawsuit filed in the U.S. Territory Court for the Western District of Washington, the state alleges that Adscend supplied the affiliates with the code and templates required to run the scam. "Defendants create and provide their affiliates with applied science that is designed to deceive Facebook users into visiting websites that remuneration defendants for the referral traffic. Defendants promote and pay their affiliates to produce Facebook pages that are named and designed to 'bait' users into visiting other websites," the suit reads. To boot to Adscend, Jeremy Bash and Fehzan Ali, co-owners of the Delaware company, are named in the courtship.

Adscend also complained that the Attorney General didn't contact it advance of filing the suit. "We find IT deeply troubling that the US Attorney General's office staff made a public spectacle of these serious allegations without first questioning the society as part of its investigative process and, even much inexplicably, without notifying the caller that the ailment was being filed," Mark Rosenberg, an attorney with Tarter Krinksy and Drogin who is representing Adscend said in the statement. Adscend Media freshman learned of the allegations from media inquiries."

The United States Attorney General's office and Facebook acknowledged that they didn't ask Adscend to discontinue the activity or otherwise contact the company earlier filing their suits.

Facebook filed its ailment in the U.S. District Court for the Northern Dominion of California. The suits charge Adscend with violating anti-spam and consumer protection Laws besides as violating Facebook's terms of service.

Nancy Gohring covers mobile phones and cloud computation for The IDG News Serving. Follow Nancy on Chitter at @idgnancy. Nancy's e-mail address is Nancy_Gohring@idg.com