Scamming Affiliate -> Mary Rueb -> fuckhardcore(dot)net -> MTACC INC
 

Just giving a heads up to a quite thorough scamming affiliate.

Here are the details we have:

Affiliate trickles in sales to one of our slower sites. This actually makes it easier to track.
Affiliate uses same username/password combinations. Also makes it easier to track. The username is usually the first name + a double digit number. Password is usually last name + same double digit number.

Affiliate uses the name "Mary Reub"
Affiliate's site is fuckhardcore(dot)net
Affiliate's "company name" is MTACC INC
MTACC INC's website is MTACC Incorporation
The contact information on this website matches the information from this affiliate.

Contact information is as follows:
231 Market Place # 386
San Ramon,CA 94583
Phone # : 925-361-8443
Fax #: 866-638-7080

They also claim to have a Store in Washington as well as in Russia.

Upon calling both the San Ramon, CA number and the Washington numbers, we get forwarded to the exact same voicemail, which is a Russian person by the name of Vslava Vichkoffsky (sp?)

This affiliate seems to be running a semi organized little ring here, even their "check cashing" website is an obvious cover site. So we're submitting all of this information publicly in the event anyone else is being scammed by these tards. We also encourage people to report these individuals and this "company" to the various fraud authorities out there with the hopes of giving these scum what they deserve.

Me too. This motherfucker sent me 12 sales back in December and every single one charged back. He has several sites. Here's the one he nailed me from.

http://pornosoft.net/

MTACC checks from redlinescash. anything in common these two?

gabe what program you run?

MTACC is a third party check cashing service - it's not owned by the "Mary Rueb" person. They are just using them to filter their money

You're correct...

After further investigating, MTACC does appear to be a legit business. They are actually a 3rd party check-cashing company.

People can somehow use their address and their company name to receive checks (using a sub-account number) from affiliate programs like ours. How that is legal, I have no idea. For all I know we could be sending money to Osama Bin Laden.

Anyway, the problem is not with MTACC Inc, but rather this "Mary Rueb" of fuckhardcore(dot)net who uses MTACC Inc to receive and cash checks

So moral of the story:

- MTACC Inc., 3rd party check cashing company.
- "Mary Rueb" of fuckhardcore(dot)net, sending fraud credit card sales

So the question you need to ask yourselves is this:

If you have affiliates you send checks to through MTACC Inc (or something similar), you may want to take a close look at their sales.

You have to wonder why someone feels the need to use such a service.

In "Mary Ruebs" case of fuckhardcore(dot)net, it was to keep a buffer between "her" and the program she was trying to cheat.

from an earlier thread, i wouldnt trust mtacc

I suppose it would be up to each person to allow MTACC clients.
I'm sure some people have a legit use for it ....

hey MTACC Inc. is only the 3rd party check cashing company.
If you stop to send the checks to MTACC inc, Mary Reub will receive the checks to another check cashing company )
You will not solve your problem this way. You just need to protect your program from carders.
good luck

We stopped allowing 3rd party payment processors like MTACC awhile back. It is always bad news and webmasters have plenty of other options now. It is also hard to track payments when they go through these 3rd party processors and webmasters are wondering where their money is.

thnx for the info.

Check cashing companies, sounds legit.

Phoenix, I run netvideogirls.

Here's another site they use: http://sexonline24.in
Same payout to MTACC, Contact name is Diane Corrick.

More sites associated with these thieves are:

http://sexsale24.net
http://teenmodel.in
http://strokemydickbitch.com

They got me once from the 1 site I mentioned earlier in this thread. They signed up at least 5 other times right after they were paid out using the site names listed above.

The MO is always the same. They sign up, lay low for a while then send a couple of joins a day for a week or so. Very small time, you don't even notice it. They use generic galleries ( galleries different from the content they are supposedly promoting) and send a few clicks a day. Flying under the radar to avoid detection, they sign up for revshare, using checks as a payment method and once they are paid out, every single sale charges back. You look back and say to yourself, wow, they are converting 1/20 who the fuck is this? Sure enough, it's fraud.

I'd like to apologize for not notifying the community when this happened. I simply thought I was the only victim. Saw this thread in a hotel a couple of nights ago and flipped out because the name MTACC is burned into my head.

This all went down late Nov/early Dec 2010