While that’s nice of you to say (and the first time anyone has ever responded to this complaint, going on several weeks now,) it isn’t stopping them, and there is NOTHING on your site making any mention of this.
If they don’t profit from it, they wouldn’t be sending so much of it.
I’d like to add that Lucky18 is only one of the numerous brands that this type of spam is leading to, and not a single one of the so-called “affiliate programs” are doing ANYTHING about it!
Here’s an example of one of their downloads which is STILL live, even though the originally-spammed domain has been dead for some time now (indicating they still actively use it in further campaigns:
Original spam (Directly stating this was for Lucky18 Casino) contained a “livefilestore” hotmail attachment as HTML.
That would redirect you to the domain:
http://frasspyeready.com
That domain is now dead. However when it was alive, it in turn would link you to:
http://frasspyeready.com/go.php
Which would perform a download from:
http:200.122.168.229/dl/lucky18/TrackDownload.dll?DID=116840
If I download and run that (that’s still live as I write this), it attempts to connect to:
affiliateglobal.clubeurocasino.com:20000
Where it performs some form of registration or other functionality.
So even though this was labeled and spammed as Lucky18 Casino, it’s in fact hitting a Euroclubcasino site. Loading that domain on its own leads me to CWC Affiliates, who have ALSO remained DEAD SILENT in terms of ANY response to my continual complaints.
I did that research inside of maybe 15 minutes. You claim you have “people on it”. Why aren’t they shutting this scumbag down?
If you were genuinely worried about this affecting your brand, you would get someone to shut these scumbags down, or you’d help in trying to contact whoever it is that IS profiting from this continual abuse, and tarnishing of your brand.
This is the only time I’ve ever gotten any response from Lucky18 and it’s only because I raised the point here. No email I’ve ever sent to Lucky18 or CWC regarding this has had the slightest effect.
Here’s more proof, and it’s numbering in the tens of thousands:
Google only shows 344 results, but do a search for the phrase “Click here to get an $1800 Cash Bonus” within MSN spaces. As I write this the number is 8,430, and the number of blog entries is currently 9,800.
Those quantities increase approximately 900 to 1000 per day.
All of those are used in spam campaigns promoting your website.
If I were on MSN’s legal team, I’d have some hard questions about how seriously you’re investigating this.
Some of those ARE already shut down, thankfully, by MSN. But not all of them, and as I said: there are hundreds to thousands of new ones being created every day.
Another thread on this forum is also commenting on this:
http://www.casinoaffiliateprograms.com/bb/spam.29690.html
I notice that in several WEEKS of complaints, all you say is that you’re “looking into it”.
Regarding the above research: Why don’t you call someone at CWC about it? You’re in a position to do that since it’s your company? Again: I took a measly 15 minutes to investigate the above details.
Here’s another piece of 5-minute research to assist whoever in your team is doing this.
http://23mmemsg.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!820569DBBDCA0CBC!103.entry
Links to:
http:morphkafogler.com/
Which instantly redirects to:
http:http://www.lucky18casino.com/default.aspx
But! It sets several cookie values:
affid = 42
affreferer = [blank]
And then several session values.
Is 42 some form of “default” affiliate id? That sounds unlikely.
I remain unconvinced that your team is doing ANYTHING about this problem. If so we wouldn’t be seeing so much spam linked DIRECTLY to your site, an a daily basis.
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