With all the drama going on lately, thought I'd google "fraudulent porn credit card charges."
One of the first links on the top of the page was:
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/...m/348009875931
(yes, I know it's another forum but it's not porn-related, not webmaster related and relative to the survival of our industry so I ask for leniency)
This fine surfer states
"While I am a fond supporter of the perverted arts, I definitely did not purchase any of these subscriptions."
- - This tell you this guy is a buyer? It tells me that.
So, Mr. Happy Paying Porn Customer, Mr blargh, from the lovely town of Cupertino, CA does what any well-rounded person would do when this fraudulent charge shows up on his statement. He goes to the web address provided to him(VaultSupport.com) and gets whacked with:
Quote:
CHARGE BACKS AND FRAUD FROM OUR MEMBERS
A billing chargeback will place your name, address, zip code, and credit card number into an Internet fraud database. ALL INTERNET CREDIT CARD COMPANIES USE THIS DATABASE. We DO NOT have any control over this fraud database.
If you chargeback your membership, the billing company WILL add your information to the ban database. If you get into this database you will not be able to use that billing company again. It is impossible to get off the ban lists.
BE SMART! DON'T DESTROY YOUR INTERNET CREDIT BY BEING ADDED TO THIS LIST AND INVESTIGATED FOR FRAUD!
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Then, Mr. blargh, from Cupertino, CA, reaches out to a forum for help letting all of his fellow smut-buying friends know about his recent experience with a pornography website.
- - You think this guy's going to be excited about joining his next porn site? I don't.
- - You think his friends will? I don't.
KNOW THE PROGRAMS YOU ARE PROMOTING.
Understand what they do with the customers YOU send them. Some affiliate probably made $100 PPS on this guy and now, the odds are, no one else will make a dime off this guy ever again. You're gaining $100. But you're losing THOUSANDS over a lifetime.
Now, I don't spend too much time on this board(more lately, but not much overall) so I may be posting something that's already been posted. If that is the case, please let me look like an idiot only briefly and let this thread die.
But man, I just don't get what is going on in this industry with the practices of some companies. It's like smoking. You know it's going to kill you. You just know it probably won't be tomorrow so fuck it.
I did do some digging on "whois" and found a bunch of "Related Sites" : freshteenbabes.com, sororityslutcams.com, sexosinfronteras.com, searchgals.com, pornmovievault.com, momsover50.com, loliti.com, juicygals.com, gaystudlymales.com, wildrhino.com
I'm not much as far as internet forensics is concerned so if anyone wants to do any digging on who PimpProfits is and how they work, go for it.
I just happened to run across it in a very quick google search and felt it made a timely point so I'm here posting it.
Good luck to the winners.