DamageX

Nor do I believe that they will do more than give offenders a public slap on the wrist, to uphold appearances.

Why is that you say? Simple, because they have pretty much nothing to lose, at this point, if the spyware keeps jacking their joinpage traffic, as long as it goes to another paysite that processes with them.

As for the affiliates bitching, I think that's pretty much all they can do at this point. Even if sponsors would want to drop either of them as processors, who are they going to go with? Verotel is reputed for being less than reliable and has close to zero affiliate interface. SegPay are only some former iBill employees. Netbilling is not an option for 90% of the sponsors since they will be turned away quite promptly, unless they do enough volume. Own merchant account is also out of the question, unless you do volume.

The worst that can happen is that sponsors keep bouncing them between primary and secondary biller, not much else I can see happening at this point. In fact, I'd say the one of them that goes public about refusing to do business with crooks will stand to lose much more than they'd stand to gain, at least short-term, bacause all the crooks will flock to their competition.

Now let's just pray that someone actually codes some crap that will hijack signup page traffic and sends it to other billers, otherwise I seriously don't see any action against this, from either CCBill or Epoch, any time soon.

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