Cheating sponsors

[terry]

Hi All,

I hate pointing fingers and stuff but its just something that really gets my blood boiling.

I understand that the sponsors want to make money too, but there are other ways to make money - you don't have to screw your webmasters!

I'm sure I get screwed everyday but its anoter thing to find out about it.. I'd rather not even think about it!

Have a look at this site: http://www.chickscravecash.com/signup.htm

View source and you find this: <input type=hidden name=ccbill_referer value='631276'>

A buddy of mine confronted them about it and they have since taken down their affiliate program. (http://www.freakmommas.com/webmasters.htm)

I just needed to vent.. thanks for listening.

Terry

[Opti]

I dont get it? Exactly what is the scam being pulled?

[urb]

Originally posted by Opti
I dont get it? Exactly what is the scam being pulled?

The alleged scam terry is talking about is when a ccbill referer value is fixed in the source code of the join page.

This may knockout any webmaster referrer value that should have been sent to the signup.cgi page.

[CamZ_Dan]

anything new on this?

[grzepa]

Things like that suck :(

Also recently there was this huge scandal with a quite big sponsor that shaved like a mother #$# ... people got access to their admin area and dicovered that for example : 110 signups where reffered but that sponsor reported only 4 .

[kristian]

Originally posted by grzepa
Things like that suck :(

Also recently there was this huge scandal with a quite big sponsor that shaved like a mother #$# ... people got access to their admin area and dicovered that for example : 110 signups where reffered but that sponsor reported only 4 .

which sponsor?

just say, it was "allegedly" whatever-sponsor

[terry]

Hi All,

Thanks for your replies to this thread. I really just needed to vent. Things like this really piss me off once I find out about them. I know a lot of sponsors do it and some dont... if they choose to then fine, I just prefer honesty. There is so much more I could yap about on this topic but I just wont go there.

Thanks urb for clarifying it for me.

Terry

[backoffbitch]

Originally posted by kristian
which sponsor?

just say, it was "allegedly" whatever-sponsor


No need for alleged as I have proof, it was Pibcash
I copied their entire admin section before it was made public.


I was pulling in 2/3 signups a day at some points and cedited for a big fat zero.