Here is a real report. All traffic from US and Canada. I have $150 from google for the same period of time from the same pages (ads run side by side)
To the OP ranting about media.net, it all depends on your traffic. I am a publisher that uses both adsense and media and I can tell you this, I prefer media on some of my high traffic sites.
I have also recently approved by yahoo publisher network for my blog. I think it is better alternative to Google Adsense. Because I had applied a lots of time with the same blog which i used for yahoo, But Google always disappoint me. I think Blaming a company like Yahoo does not make any sense. If you they will not pay you for the 4k impressions, I don't think that it will make them scammer. But It will also happens with some publishers of Google Adsense. They will also disable accounts without any prior notice. So, If that the point then Google is also a scam company according to you
Media.net is next best alternative to adsense but their RPM is not constant everyday. I think they are still on beta stage and will soon launch banner ads
They are not scammer. I receviced payments from them. You are driving FAKE TRAFFIC & clicking yourself on it. So that's why they banned & not give revenue