I spent 1-2 hours to find out how the H these sites showed up as duplicates when using copyscape but when I visited the sites I could not find the texts as they were hidden. The fact that no affiliate links were used gave me more hints to use the source code and AFTER 10 searches I found the redirect to YOUR site. I saw your site’s CAP approved seal so that ‘s when I could link all together.
I think you should know that you can not buy more traffic by posting this request on DP those peeps know better and you should too. Besides that you must have seen hits coming to your site from these fake sites.
Should I have handled this by PM ? If it was one site, an obvious mistake by the owner, a 5 min hassle to find out the email addy : Yes, but in this case : No because it was very clear you gave the order to someone you did not know and did not check the work he had done.