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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
It's definitely fraud as well as possibly other things like conspiracy. In most cases it's also likely a felony due to it crossing state lines and the dollar amounts involved. The problem is it's difficult to prove, the authorities typically aren't looking to protect adult affiliates, and you need money to sue.
But in theory if you are an affiliate and you have proof or something reasonable you could try suing and getting subpoena for employees and owners to admit to it. It would either be that or lie under oath.
In theory it's also a great way for the government to take down an organization if they can get proof of shaving. Being fraud it would likely open the door to RICO act violations and racketeering charges if the government saw fit to seek them. The government would present the adult company as "a criminal conspiracy". They could either get an employee to break and admit to it or sign up as an affiliate and conduct a "sting operation" where they gather evidence for trial. Unlikely but it's possible. Personally I hope a fed is reading this right now and that I gave them an idea.  |
I am sure that if no one cares about adult piracy no one is going to give a flying fuck about adult shaving.
First off you would have to be able to prove it. The only way to really prove it is do a series of signups your self in a way that makes it look like you were a group of people signing up. This is certain to be against the TOS of any program. And speaking of the TOS there may be language in most that says something like "payouts for approved sales only at our sole descretion" and they will just tell you that your sales were not reported because they somehow failed a sniff test or were "flagged by super secret fraud detection algorythms".