Explore scams coverage from Good PR: Fake Forbes/marketplace placements, PR fraud, phantom newsrooms — exposed with documents
Fake Forbes/marketplace placements, PR fraud, phantom newsrooms — exposed with documents
From placement desk to local consultant, one $600 paid membership becomes a $12,000 'guaranteed feature.' The anatomy of reseller stacking and the pass-through questions that unwind it.
Machine-written articles deployed across operator-owned networks at pennies per piece, sold as media placements. The four-station pipeline, the unit economics, and the provenance questions that break it.
Download farms, network-number shuffles, and referral mills — how pay-to-play podcasting sells audiences that do not exist, and the three-listener test.
Credential capture, invoice spoofing, weaponized attachments — how fake newsroom emails exploit the fastest repliers in any company, and the verification discipline that stops them.
Asset-dressed clones, broker-resold brand kits, and fee-gated 'media audits': three schemes that monetize the most under-protected asset a company owns.
AI made the press costume cheap. Three documented variants — placement fees, intelligence harvests, and sold journalist profiles — and the masthead checks that break all of them.
Paid hit-campaigns occupy PR's gray zone — and attract operators who sell attacks they never run, then monetize the fear they created. The court-recorded patterns, reconstructed.
The $395 'national distribution' that costs nothing to deliver: how counterfeit newswires build reports instead of reach — and the traceability checks that expose them.
Tiered 'virality' packages sell an outcome nobody can guarantee, using a cost stack investigators can reconstruct line by line.
Inside the guaranteed-placement economy: lookalike domains, rented contributor memberships, and the 90-second check founders never run before wiring five figures.