SmokeyTheBear,
it's great You keep an eye on some of all this shit!
I get the feeling it's escalated quite much the last 6 months.
Anyway, like I've always believed.. It's not shady sponsors that are behind stuff like this,
it's a small number of shady webmasters & hackers.
I wonder if they're networking since the problem is growing or if they "work" independently...
I just hope some people with the right skills and knowledge can come up with
some way to at least detect things like these efficiently.
Otherwise it will probably not be pleasant for either us webmasters or the industry as a whole.
Sponsors are going to end up with mostly "hacker-affiliates" when real
webmasters leave them because, to them, it looks like the sites stop converting...