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Wow, what a story nocturnal. Thank you so much for sharing this with our CAP community, and I hope that everyone takes note to look out for this.
All the Best,
SheadeyHi Noc,
How’s it going, hope your keeping well
Mate, there were a spat of similar bogus emails being sent out a while ago. You’ll find info on this over at the GPWA. Like your site, this scam also added an extra “letter” to a newly registered domain, etc etc.
Given this was becoming a regular occurrence for a while there, I’m of the opinion it was much more than just an unknown scammer who came up with this idea. My take, I think it’s someone who’s got industry knowledge. I never made those observations public but I’ll send you a PM
Thanks for your replies guys…
Dave:
Quote:Given this was becoming a regular occurrence for a while there, I’m of the opinion it was much more than just an unknown scammer who came up with this idea. My take, I think it’s someone who’s got industry knowledge. I never made those observations public but I’ll send you a PMI couldn’t agree more… the fact also that someone was attempting to hack my GPWA account makes me think it might be someone lurking around the boards or even worse it could be a fellow affiliate. Anyways no way to really know based on what I have so far in regards to info on this.
Talk to you soon.
Adam I’ve been seeing this a lot more in recent months. We actually launched a section (click here) dedicated to raising awareness about affiliates who are trying to scam affiliate programs, and vice versa, in this fashion.
Here is another thread taken from that section in which the same thing has happened as well
@nocturnal 247675 wrote:
someone was attempting to hack my GPWA account makes me think it might be someone lurking around the boards or even worse it could be a fellow affiliate.
Did you obtain the IP from GPWA security (if not ask Rick) I’m sure he can get it for you. Albeit maybe a anonymous proxy or public VPN, in which can’t be traced. But who knows, maybe not, so worth investigating maybe
So it appears as though this fraudster has defrauded EuroPartners.
It’s funny to have received a payment which I was one way or the other obligated (even just for good conscience) to send back to them which I’ve done now but more importantly that the fraudster activity ended up being one that resulted in my getting the payment. I probably should have kept the payment to teach them a lesson but I’m better than that.
Anyways affiliate programs really need to be aware of this as the next payment issued could actually go to the fraudster in which case there’s no chance they’ll have the opportunity to recoup such payment.
My name is Hanan And i ‘m in charge of your account with Europartners. I am really sorry to bother you on your FB profile, however there’s something urgent we need to discuss: there’s someone who’s trying to scam your partners and ask for new deals + flat payments under your name. please approve me on Skype or answer one of my emails i would like to give you the whole story.
Yeah I’m aware I posted about this on the GPWA and CAP and e-mailed all the affiliate managers.Here’s my post on GPWA about this:
Impersonator Warning to Affiliate Programs & WebmastersObviously it’s not my responsibility if affiliate programs get defrauded by not doing a sufficient amount of their own due diligence. Most affiliate managers that I work with know my correct e-mail address so anything not coming from that should be ignored.
Thanks for the prompt reply,and thanks for the alert you sent to the whole Industry.
I totally agree with you that it’s not your responsibility to protect us from such fraudulent affiliates, We sent $7,5k to your moneybookers account ( we agreed with the scammer on a prepaid Hybrid deal.. I’m really embraced to talk about it…) Please tell me if you can refund the payment before the end of the week. would like to establish a better business relationship with you and see if we can agree on a new deal (with a better revenue share deal for you).
Ah that payment was from you guys I just figured it was earnings. That kinds of sucks though as that payment has now been worked into my budgeting, etc… Anyways none the less I’ll do the right thing here and send back the payment. Please note that the amount received because it was converted into CAD was $7262.61 which is the amount that I’d be able to send back to you minus any processing fees moneybookers charges.
Please let me know where to send the payment to. Also I’m going to post this thread of messages up on GWPA and CAP just as a further reminder to other affiliate programs about these sorts of issues.
