I see allot of affiliates on here complaining about sponsors who they THINK is ripping them off this way or that way, they come to this board to complain instead of going to the source and fixing the problem. If someone is ripping you, you can fix it.
Now that my problem seems resolved I will let you all know what happened and how I think he was doing it and who he is so programs can be on the look out for this guy also.
I had a guy, Daniel Stoyanov of Bulgaria join my program june 2005, he did not start sending traffic untill feb. 2006, he was sening traffic from
www.sweetest-girls.com , a TGP, he was not sending allot of signups, sent 18for Feb and about the same for march, but come april 3rd, all his signups started calling in claiming fraud or calling their bank, mostly Discover Card, I noticed the calls to the call center instantly, but did not see it for what it was untill several of those and 3 or 4 retrival requests from discover. On (about) april 5th I wrote him and told him I suspected him of fraud, the next day after another call in I did a whois on his domain name, it was registered to Daniel Mandel of West Virginia,..hmm same first name...So I wrote both the affiliate address I had on file AND the whois address and told him if he cashes the check I just sent him I would report him to discover, I did not hear back from him, sent several emails, nothing back, but his site closed down, today I called discover, they transfered me to security who gave me a contact at the FBI division for internet crimes, She said it was the same unit who made the arrests in the Nigerian scam thing. Called them and told them what I had, faxed the the canceled checked from the first check I sent him, it had where he cashed it at on the back. This evening in the mail, guess what, the guy sent me back my check... He never did write me but he stopped sending traffic after the first email and after I wrote his US address his site closed so I know he got my messages.
but it looks like what was happening is the guy was using stolen card holder information to make the sales, then I would mail the check to Bulgaria and it was cashed there, not sure exactly how the guy in virginia comes into play, but he is being investigated now and I am guessing if he is found to have been involved is using stolen card data will get some jail time.
So if you think your getting ripped, confront the situation, be aggressive and it will work out, one way or another.