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Short teaser to an free e-book.
The e-book pretty much explained to one and all how to scam Commission Junction (or any network) out of thousands per month by carding your own advertisers. Here is the gist of the e-book instructions.
If you have an affiliate account with Commission Junction (or any network I am sure), what you do is sign up for your own offers. Now this is nothing new, but this guys idea is to sign up for high CPA leads.
Of course the high CPA leads require more than just an email address, they require a credit card. On CJ, Rhapsody pays out $15.00 per free trial and there are hundreds of companies on CJ that do this. Across the net, there are literally thousands of CPA advertisers that pay out 8-20 dollars per valid “trial” which really only requires a valid credit card with a balance to cover the account activation when the free trial expires.
Here is the trick. This dude suggests that you get a pre-paid credit card or a gift credit card and load say, $20.00 onto it. Then, you simply sign up for a bunch of these high paying trial offers via your own affiliate link. Again, you can do this because the advertiser will not charge you for this until the end of the trial.
The magic of this is that if you were to acquire about 5 of these cards per week, registered under different identities, you could do this pretty much indefinitely as long as you were not signing up through your own computer, as your affiliate manager is surely aware of your IP address.
That is the gist of the whole ebook. There is a lot of fluff about how much you can make, but you can figure that out for yourself.
Now here is where I tell you what I think. Obviously this is straight up fraud. I don’t want to hear anything about it being “wrong” because I know that it is, but legal or illegal, I thought about it a lot. I mean, who can watch the movie “Blow” and not wonder what it would be like to make money on demand? That said, here are the ideas that I have to improve this scam. (And NO I am not running it, I just thought about the concept).
Identities. Once you buy a card and load money onto the account, in most cases, it is not active. You activate the card by net or by phone. Using a fake identity with a pre-paid credit card is about as simple as lying about your name at a speed dating convention. It’s no problem, but this is where I disagree with the original e-book. These days, even pre-paid credit companies at least validate that a person and their location is real.
So, you will see how to activate many cards with separate identities by starting with just one. Simply get on your computer, find a solid working proxy server and sign up as a *real* person that you found in the location of your proxy server by searching whitepages.com. Now all of your info will appear to be 100% accurate, lest the place of purchase of the card. If you are really paranoid, just buy your card online via the same proxy and all your info will check out.
Once you have your identity you will have all the card information that you need to buy anything online or over the phone. You will not have the card itself, that will be shipped to your fake identity two weeks down the road. Don’t worry about that either because the fake/real person will just say “another damn pre-paid credit card offer I didn’t even want” and throw it away.
Doesn’t matter, by then you are done with that card, and that identity. Now, another thing on proxies:
Tracking. We have solved the tracking on the credit card ID end, but what about once you start using the card? I actually suggest you find out which companies you will do this with by using your own computer and your own card. Most people register with their own advertisers just to find out more about the them. You can still use a $20 pre-paid card so you simply collect the commission (and don’t pay), but the real reason you will do this is so that you don’t fu*k up once your really running with this scam.
To be honest, you could do this little scam on your own comp for a while, but it would not take long for your affiliate manager to send you a WTF email, so the only way to do this (repeatedly) is to use an outside computer so that registrations do not show up from own IP address, (the same address that your affiliate network has on file). Bouncing around town could solve this problem (as suggested in the e-book). There are a million hot-spots in my town where I could do this and have a cafe-late at the same time, but again, your affiliate network may wonder why all of your registrations are coming from the same city and none of them are converting (our next point).
The best idea would be to use proxy servers. This would make it so that your registrations are coming from all over the place. Even if the proxy is a data thief, who cares? It’s working and your card is a fake. You will be done with it in no time.
Conversions: Obviously fake registrations will not convert. Another modification to the e-books ideas is that if you are working with only Commission Junction, the only way that you will get around being dropped by advertisers (or the network) is by mixing your good leads with your bad ones. For instance, every week I have multiple people sign up for Rhapsody from my website. Any fake registration is going to blend in like a dude with a comb-over at the same speed-dating convention; worth a thought, but hardly appropriate for one to investigate.
Again (fixing the e-book), another way to do this would be to use multiple networks. This would hide your actions MUCH better. Granted, you will not get one big check every month, but many small ones is a good thing too, especially if it keeps you “in business”. Also using multiple networks would allow you to sign up with many, many, many CPA offers with the same card. If you have a bunch of these fake cards, the possibilities are *almost endless*, which brings me to my next point.
Forever Scam: If you are not mixing your traffic you may get caught eventually, depending on how hard you hit this. Here is a way to run this scam forever! Ready?: Incentive Rewards Programs. You know the ones that pay you for signing up for offers, or give you a “free” ipod” or XBox for your “participation”. Yah, those. Those scam artists could be just as easily scammed back. Just do the same thing as stated above with as many of these sites as you feel you must. Here is what you must know.
1. There are so many Incentive Rewards sites on the net that you would never have to quit doing this.
2. You would not have to commit fraud by using a fake name. Use your own. Remember, you are only using a card with enough money on it for the registration and end payment only.
3. Don’t worry about your affiliate networks. You are being paid through a third party. Everything is on them, including your registrations that you are completing just for the cash.
4. Not all of the IR companies pay in cash, but you can always use or sell an X-Box or iPod.
5. You will not make as much signing up for one of their offers as you could through an affiliate link of your own. They split the commission with you, but all of the up sides of this method far outweigh the slight drop in commission.
6. If you run into more than one IR company running the same offer, just use a fake identity card in your stockpile.
7. With the excretion of my previous point, This is NOT illegal. It may be shady, but so is a “free” ipod offer and you can do this indefinitely as long as the world continues to turn the way it is now.