That's what I was getting at, the guy who bumped this thread implied that Traffic Gigolos was trying to make money through unethical and illegal practices which is so not the case.

I'm almost four months late, but I'd like to know if anyone's tracked it down to which program does this. I'd like to remove them from my profile and bounce back this constant barrage of shit.

I have a few ideas since it often incorporates a 'last name' field which is purely bogus, but I'm not going to outright accuse any of those three without proof.

This is why canceling spammers with non pay sucks ass

LOL

I have no idea who is behind the spam...all I know is they go to TG's sites.
I also emailed TG's and it *appears* they are already on the problem.

Thank you Matt for bumping a 4 month old thread!

We obviously do not allow spam, and thinking that we would even consider having anything to do with child porn is just foolish. This is obviously an attack on us. This affiliate has been terminated.


Thank you everyone who does know me for putting in a good word. I JUST got back from camping with my kids, and saw this lovely post along with another.

The links are shut down, problem is it's an attack on our sites, not someone trying to make money.

I'm glad it "appears" that way to you! Who did you email? I've got a couple emails regarding this issue. None of which are from a Matt...


Thanks for all your support? How about sending some traffic as an "I'm SORRY!".

I'm glad it "appears" that way to you! Who did you email? I've got a couple emails regarding this issue. None of which are from a Matt...


Thanks for all your support! How about sending some traffic as an "I'm SORRY!" ?

I triple posted. More spam from TrafficGigolos.com

I'm getting em in batches all day bro.. can that sucka

Did a long time ago. Who's that fighting in your sig? Looks like they got seriously fucked up!

I got like 3 sales from that mailing. why am I shut off I removed Shap

I was trying to protect your idenity. You just blew it.

Randleman vs. Fedor .... Fedor actually survived that slam and won the fight :thumbsup

will I still get paid for my 3 sales

550 emails in 10 minutes to a webmaster list, obvious joe job. The BP link is down already. Traffic Gigolos pissed off a small time proxy spammer, probably for terming his original account for USE violations.

At 7:41pm I forwarded one of the spams to [email protected]
I got that email address from this thread. Anybody receive?

FYI
** I had been getting those emails for HOURS today ***
I came on GFY to see if any other people were experiencing the same thing I was experiencing....I did a search, I saw several threads ...I didnt want to start a new thread only to BERATED for (oh where were you 3 months ago? yada yada yada)

Sorry for what?

- Matt

The funny thing is... if this so called email were to be sent to ANY one of our employees.. this would have been investigated and dealt with in an orderly fashion. We do not tolerate spam and certainly would not put up with it to gain a few extra joins. Perhaps you should try again and hit SEND =)

Thanks to everyone that reported this. Obvious joe job. A few other programs got hit by the same guy. We've done what we can.

TG are all very very good people.. I am an affiliate and I have gotten no emails..

Must be a big mistake.. they are not like that..

I thought you guys wanted this thread to die
LOL

Now you're calling me a liar :1orglaugh
Ill tell ya what ...lets get about 5 NEUTRAL PARTIES ...and I can FORWARD the EMAIL AGAIN to ALL 5 and see if they get it.

GAME ON?

We have absolutely nothing to hide.. who cares if this thread is still around.

I didn't call you a liar persay, perhaps you had the incorrect email address :winkwink:

And just to entertain me, what the FUCK would forwarding email to 5 neutral parties prove? :1orglaugh

[email protected]

Is this valid?

That's my email address. I got your email. Thank you for reporting it. We've done what we can.

these days, if i create an email account, close it, and directly re-open it, i have spam.. not from traffic gigolos though, just spam

Great, that was EASY!
Thanks for the nice response.
Maybe the other Traffic Gigolo "Deraj" could use a lesson in "Public Relations" ?

:thumbsup

I have to say that traffic gigolos are great guys! They have always been good to me.

yeah and Silvercash was good to me as well when I was promoting them.

:thumbsup

I never said i was a nice guy ;)

I think some things are better off dealt with off of the boards if there is a problem. It would have been very simple to ICQ any one of us and state your complaint rather than bump an old thread blabbing about. If you then would not have gotten a response, I could see the reasoning behind it. :2 cents:

How are ya man? You know that the Gigolos luvs us some SilverCash too =)

getting tons of spam recently, from everywhere

Yesterday was busy day for me, those spams were annoying for long period of time.
I explained my reasoning for handling it the way I did.
I will accept responsiblity that YES I could have taken MORE TIME to INVESTIGATE and contact you guys directly. Sorry.

Dude.. my old email addy.. i was getting MADD spam in there.. pissed me off. I think someones aff proggie was hacked some time back or something

Shit happens man.. I appologize if I came off as an asshole, that was not my intentions, but I get defensive about spam shit. There is allot of it going around, and don't like when someone drops the bomb on us. We have thousands of affiliates and it is difficult to always be on top of things. Forwarding the emails to us is a tremendous help and will never be ignored by any member of our staff.

Best Regards!

Agreed....difficult to always be on top of things.

Thanks

Take it easy.

Traffic Gigolos = RAMPANT spammers!
 

This is my first post, and I'm going to be as diplomatic as possible.

The only way I have EVER HEARD of the company "Traffic Gigolos" is due to rampant, non-stop spam, which continues to arrive in several of my addresses every week or so, predominantly those I registered with yahoo.

In my opinion: you are all well aware of this rampant spamming but have an attitude of "well we can't do much about that can we?"

Under CAN-SPAM: if an affiliate spams on your behalf - you can and will be held responsible.

It is your JOB to police your affiliates. When people complain to you about the spam, you should DO SOMETHING about it. It's your company's responsibility to enforce your zero spam policy. Your agreements should be legally binding enough that if a spamming affiliate continues to spam, or (worse) joe-jobs you after you terminate him, you can (and most definitely should) sue this idiot for libelling your company's name.

In my opinion: Traffic Gigolos exists solely as an outlet for reckless, illegal spammers. The most recent spam run featured one of my yahoo addresses as the from and reply to. How did they get that address when I've given it out to precisely NOBODY?!

I notice some so-called representatives from Traffic Gigolos posting on this board about how they're always cancelling spammers' accounts, and yet I, and numerous others, continually receive the spam for that company's sites.

It's illegal
It's damaging any hope of this company having a good reputation.
I don't want it to continue
I want this board and its community to DO SOMETHING about this. Not just shrug and talk about how hard it is when you have "thousands" of affiliates. IT'S YOUR JOB!

Not one of you takes this issue seriously. It's obvious from the tone of the conversation in these threads. I expect a great deal of abuse from a batch of you but it doesn't change the fact that you are all doing an abysmal job of tightening the reins on your own industry.

If you don't want a bad reputation, and most importantly if you don't wish to be fined into oblivion once enough people complain about all of this to the FTC as I have, you should get off your asses and start thinking about how to tighten up your affiliate programs.

Doesn't Traffic Gigolos have any kind of trial or monitoring period for their affiliates? They should. Only once an affiliate has proven that they're spam free should they ever be allowed to get paid in the first place. I know those kinds of non-spamming affiliates exist (I just can't seem to find any who represent sites for Traffic Gigolos)

As an aside: I have absolutely no interest in adult websites. I never have. I just continue to receive these bullshit spam messages, and then get no response whatsoever when complaining about it to Traffic Gigolos. Numerous other companies have been VERY responsive when these complaints come in. Why the hell isn't Traffic Gigolos doing anything about their obvious spam problem?

This thread has been around since May. You all complained when it was brought up again in August. Here I am in October.

That's a month to month spam problem. It never stops from this company. Your affiliate program is broken. Fix it! :disgust

holy phantom bump batman!!

Yes. Which is due to the fact that THEY'RE STILL SPAMMING!

And Traffic Gigolos IS DOING NOTHING ABOUT IT!

I don't care that it's been bumped. It was bumped for a reason. Nobody on this board seems to care that lots of people never asked for this crap, and yet we continue to get it, despite complaining to them directly about it. Now that my own email address, one I have shared with NOBODY, has been abused by this porn spammer (an industry I have absolutely no interest in) I have had enough, and so here I am.

If you want this thread to go away: STOP YOUR GODDAMN SPAMMERS!

:mad:

LOL that's a great idea...

The traffic gigolo guys are stand up guys.. good to see they don't stand for this shit.

Bump for killspammerz.