I remember that affiliate program... jimmysurf or something (I'm not sure)... webmasters signed up to give away free trials of computer cleaning software. The users could then buy the software for $50 after their trial expired and the webmaster would get 50%.
It turns out that the software was deleting all the temp files and cookies on the users' computers, so when the user finally decided to buy the software, the webmasters got $0 and the programmers got 100%.
