I’ve written before about corruption but never had the level of evidence that is on show here. Make sure you read the post with the full details of this incident over at Morley Mouse. There has been a follow up with a second post that raises some issues as well.
This incident particularly annoys me as I helped Marcel out by pointing him towards the Live HTTP Headers plugin for Firefox so that he could identify any affiliates that were brand bidding and in the end he was doing it himself.
It does raise some questions though about preventing affiliate managers from competing with their affiliates. They have access to a wealth of information that makes it easy to compete with their affiliates and unfortunately I suppose this could be easily done through a false name. On...