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Hi All,
Catriona at Paddy Power just cc’d us on an email they received from a website “appearing” to be ours. The website took our domain name and added an “s”. They even went so far as to have their domain forward to ours. The domain “appearing” to be ours is [url]xxxhttp://www.casinoscashjourney.co.uk[/url] (notice the s after the word casino). It has nothing to do with our company.
Here is the email that was cc’d to us by the affiliate program:
*******
From: Ellen Poole [mailto:ellen@casinoscashjourney.co.uk]
Sent: 03 February 2011 02:18
To: Affiliates
Subject: Casino Cash Journey UKImportance: High
Hi There,
I am just letting you know that we still have spots available on the homepage. We can guarantee ~50 euro deposits per month for featured casinos. Let me know if you’re interested!
Ellen Poole
Sales Department
Casino Cash Journey UK
Skype – casinocashjourney*******
For the record, our company also does not own or operate the following domains:
xxxhttp://www.casinocashjouney.com (no r in journey)
xxxhttp://www.casinoscashjourney.com (s after the word casino)Geez. Always someone coming up with a new scam…
We’ve now heard from several Affiliate Managers checking-in to see if it is us. It looks as though this scammer want money upfront for banner space and they’re using our credibility.
Hopefully they won’t fool anybody.
@CCJ 225717 wrote:
We’ve now heard from several Affiliate Managers checking-in to see if it is us. It looks as though this scammer want money upfront for banner space and they’re using our credibility.
Hopefully they won’t fool anybody.
Thanks CCJ, we got this email as well. Interesting that they did sufficient research to send it to me personally.
Stephen
Hi Stephen, Glad you read the post. It save me sending an email to you.
There’s actually a name for this issue and it’s called “Brand Illusion Typo Phishing”.
Hi All,
After corresponding with many, many Affiliate Managers, this is what “Ellen Poole” from xxxwww.casinoscashjourney.co.uk (notice the s after casino) was asking for:
*******
“Hi, Pricing for featured casinos is €6000/3 months with 30% revenure share. We can guarantee you 50 new player deposits per month on the contract. Let me know if this is doable for you.
*******In some cases they were asking for €4500/3 months. They wanted the payment upfront.
We’ve contacted most of our database of Affiliate Managers and nearly 90% of them were contacted by “Ellen Poole”. We feel our duty is to let everyone we deal with know about the issue. It looks as though this may be the latest type of scam “Brand Illusion Typo Phishing”. Hopefully the people we don’t already work with, check this forum.
Affiliate Managers are “street smart” and a lot more savvy than the crooks think.
We’re going to be putting a notice up on our UK website about the issue.
On another note, many Affiliate Managers that are contacting us about the issue are now looking for ad space. That’s the positive of this mess! I only wish I had a lot more space!!
Just to let everyone out there know, Winner Affiliates has also been contacted via email and Skype regarding this scam. She offered the best position on the CCJ website in exchange for % plus flat fee upfront.
Warning to all – be careful!
anyway to catch these b!@tards? has some been able to get the payment details?
This is unbelievable. What next?! Fraudsters are always one step ahead.
Luckily the Affiliate Managers are switched on and picked this up.
Hopefully the reputation of Casino Cash Journey will remain intact despite the fraudsters efforts.@topboss 225834 wrote:
This is unbelievable. What next?! Fraudsters are always one step ahead.
Luckily the Affiliate Managers are switched on and picked this up.
Hopefully the reputation of Casino Cash Journey will remain intact despite the fraudsters efforts.Hi TopBoss,
As soon as we found out, our first priority was to make sure that everyone we deal with knew of the scam. We emailed everyone within 24 hours and made postings here and at the GPWA.
As far as our credibility goes, because of this many Affiliate Managers that are contacting us about the issue are now looking for ad space. That’s the positive of this mess! I only wish I had a lot more space!!
@Robbie Winner 225778 wrote:
Just to let everyone out there know, Winner Affiliates has also been contacted via email and Skype regarding this scam. She offered the best position on the CCJ website in exchange for % plus flat fee upfront.
Warning to all – be careful!
Thanks for posting Robbie and checking-in. As I said to Renee via the GPWA, the Affiliate Managers need their own private forum to discuss things. It would have gotten our important message out quicker.
Here’s what I wrote on the GPWA:
To us, this is a new scam that is geared primarily towards affiliate programs/casinos and then affecting the credibility of the site they “Brand Illusioned”. It’s just another thing that Affiliate Managers need to look out for. In this case, how often is anyone going to look that closely at an email address. It did fool some people but no one actually got stung that we know of. We spent a lot of time trying to inform everyone. We’re curious if they reached anyone that we don’t work with.
the certainties of life need to be updated:
- death
- taxes
- receiving spam
- scams and phishing
@CCJ 225711 wrote:
Hi All,
Catriona at Paddy Power just cc’d us on an email they received from a website “appearing” to be ours. The website took our domain name and added an “s”. They even went so far as to have their domain forward to ours. The domain “appearing” to be ours is [url]xxxhttp://www.casinoscashjourney.co.uk[/url] (notice the s after the word casino). It has nothing to do with our company.
Here is the email that was cc’d to us by the affiliate program:
*******
From: Ellen Poole [mailto:ellen@casinoscashjourney.co.uk]
Sent: 03 February 2011 02:18
To: Affiliates
Subject: Casino Cash Journey UKImportance: High
Hi There,
I am just letting you know that we still have spots available on the homepage. We can guarantee ~50 euro deposits per month for featured casinos. Let me know if you’re interested!
Ellen Poole
Sales Department
Casino Cash Journey UK
Skype – casinocashjourney*******
For the record, our company also does not own or operate the following domains:
xxxhttp://www.casinocashjouney.com (no r in journey)
xxxhttp://www.casinoscashjourney.com (s after the word casino)
