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The regulator has been affected by erosion of trust too

At the core of Social Puncher’s report is the finding that the audience on IBT that saw CFPB’s ads was disproportionally made up of cheap traffic purchased from ad networks.

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IBTimes.com, the publisher’s US business site, last year (2017) won a significant portion of a large video and display advertising campaign for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal agency. 

Social Puncher, a consulting firm that investigates online ad fraud, alleges in its report that the ads were displayed to an audience on IBTimes.com that includes a significant amount of “cheap junk traffic with a share of bots.”

The traffic is generated via pop-up or pop-under browser windows on file sharing and pirated video streaming websites. 

When a user visits one of these piracy sites, a new browser window is automatically opened during their session, and this new window is used to load a different website or an ad. In some cases, the user sees the content in this new window, but in other cases, the window is hidden behind the original site they are browsing. 

This traffic does involve a human user, but it’s acknowledged to be of low quality because the content loaded in the pop-up window was not requested by the user, and, in many cases, they may never see it.

What are we thinking about for government regulators?

As the person responsible for government research

I want to understand the schemes, infrastructure, and mechanisms used to steal money from institutional investors, so that I can identify gaps in my knowledge and prioritize areas for further investigation.

As the person responsible for government policymaking

I want to know how use those insights to design amendments to laws, regulatory rules, and disclosure requirements, so that enforcement agencies and private litigants can more effectively pursue successful litigation and impose appropriate penalties on those responsible.

As the person responsible for ​​whistleblower program

I want to understand the scale, complexity and money flow of the fraud ecosystem to establish structured case management, to train Investigators and to manage a whistleblower program's clear protocols for intake, investigation, protection and awording.

As the person responsible for government law enforcement

I want to evaluate charging decisions and resolutions, focusing resources on the main categories of corporate misconduct in order to fulfill the duty of investigating and prosecuting corporate fraud against taxpayers and government contracts.

Ambixer contributions

Securities and Exchange Commission

As a think tank, Ambixer examines and explains how parasitic shadow digital assets (PSDAs) affect public host companies, inflating their value and draining their cash flow.

We also explore how PSDAs create a corrupt ecosystem and who will ultimately be forced to bear all the losses.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

A key feature of digital assets is that complex systems that simulate competition and auctions and mimic user behaviour are easy to create. Consequently, the cost of carrying out a single fraudulent transaction decreases significantly, rendering transactions involving losses of just $1–$2 profitable. 
However, there could be millions of such fraud transactions, meaning this represents the new class of commodity.

Federal Trade Commission

We investigate and explain how, as an asset class, PSDA uses algorithmic and commoditised micro-fraud — disguised as services and laundered through an ecosystem of companies and platforms — to harm government consumers and taxpayers. 

PSDA destroys competition at all levels: individual transactions, companies within a market segment and long-term institutional investments.

What questions should we ask when solving a corporate wrongdoing?

...and many more questions

Were there efforts to conceal the alleged fraud from government agencies, auditors, or otherwise impede or obstruct a government function or oversight?

Did any actions related to the alleged conduct threaten the safety or security of Americans, including military readiness?

Did the alleged conduct cause substantial financial hardship to a taxpayer-funded program or government function?

Did the alleged conduct involve the exfiltration of U.S. dollars to support foreign adversaries?

Did the alleged conduct involve immigration offenses?

Did the alleged conduct result in financial harm to twenty-five or more victims or cause losses of $25 million or more?

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