Candid Clicks is temporarily closing
 

Although it is unfortunate to have come to this, but until further notice Candid Clicks will be closed. So for now please take your links down and use another blind link program. I can assure you that we will be back sooner or later. It may be as soon as a week to as late as a few months.

This worthless piece of spamming slime is sending out emails with links to what may be REAL CHILD PORN and stating to be removed you must call 1-866-4-CANDID or email [email protected]

Our site is down this whole time and those worthless dirtbag piece of slime has to rub it in by spamming real CP.

We will from here on actively work with the FBI and other law enforcement authorities to catch this cyber terrorist and hopefully place him or her in JAIL. What has happened to us can happen to any sponsor, and we must immediately put a stop to it.

Please do not worry about payments. Checks for last period and this period will be paid IN FULL for all traffic sent. Checks and paypals for last period will be going out tomorrow the 20th of August.

Candid Clicks was a great webmaster program, and don't worry we'll be back stronger than ever. By than we might also have some additional webmaster programs for our webmasters to choose from too! Although Candid Clicks will be down, this will not be halting our development arm of Candid Publishing, Inc.

When Candid Clicks is ready to re-launch again, we shall dispatch an email out.

And all I hear about is
How it's so bad
It's so bad
It's too bad
It's too bad
Too late
So wrong
So long
It's too bad that
We had no time to rewind
Let's walk
Let's talk
Let's talk

Hope things work out for you..

Im so sorry to hear that dude, your a good guy and this fucking sucks

Good luck catching the dirtbag.

My guess would be Sasush.

Trust me....Sasush is too stupid to pull this off.

If he could spam like this person could, he'd be a rich man. This spammer is a pro.

Sasush was a 2 dollar a day hitbot whore.

He's not a pro..anyone having to result to shuch measures to shut down an affiliate program is an amateur.

I hope when you catch this peice of shit they put him away for a long time.

Because your right...this could happen to any one of us.

Let's just hope he's wrapping his ankles in jail for Big Bubba very soon.

:warning You guys should give me a call we might have some things to discuss. I have had two similar completely numbing malicious professional spam attacks in the last 3 weeks. The intention of both was to put me out of business. Thankfully, my upstream provider and I see eye to eye on this so in that respect they have failed miserably, twice.

However, I'm hell bent and blood-thirsty.

My circumstance was absolutely the result of professional spammers and the volume of spam that was sent out... well, let's just say the bounced emails alone from each mailing totaled about 125,000.

Maybe if we can compare my shit list of dirtbags to your list we can find a commonality and skull fuck the people that are responsible for this. <cough> I have some ideas.

Brad

Brad,

Good idea.

Shoot me an email [email protected] and I'll discuss what I have found thus far.

Interesting how this spammer targetted you. This spammer also targetted Dialer King and myself. If it's the same guy of course.

Who is your upstream? Mine is Level3, and they took the heat for about 2 weeks but couldn't take it anymore then.

BTW what's your # Brad?

Check your E-mail... :thumbsup

Man, this really sucks. I wish you the best of luck in catching up with this individual. The net unfortunately attracts many socially inept losers and we end up dealing with it. I hope the FBI takes this seriously.

Good luck!

LD

CandidP, I am so sorry to hear that. Good Luck and I hope they find the ass soon.
~Lanie~

this is easily some of the most disturbing shit i've ever watch unfold with regard to adult internet. this guy/group will end up with a lot of broken bones sooner or later.

just Walk On...........

Sorry to hear that C.Clicks. I hope you'll find the bastard and put him at least in jail. SinEmpire had a similar attack not to long time ago, but fortunately not for CP. As far Sasush as you said he is not capable for sure to do such thing and of course involved with CP is the lowest thing on earth someone can do and honestly he deserves death penalty. I'm sure Sasush is not related with this anyhow.

I know that pro spammers can avoid tracing for some time, but this is happening for too long. It surprises me that you haven't find the bastard with the help of FBI. Keep every single email you can find related with the spam and show them to the authorities. Even if he is using proxies, open relays etc some of the hijacked servers he is using should have recorded at some point his IP.

What exactly made candid close? Sorry if I'm clueless on this...

whats scary is that the same thing could happen to any sponser,,

Candid i would appreciate you give out some tips on how to prevent this from happening

man that's some sad stuff.
Really fucking lame and I hope these bitches will get caught.
Could mean 15 years of jail easily.

After all every spammer is tracable no matter how good he thinks he is.

I agree, and broken bones is all some people understand.

You can't really prevent...but one way to slow down the damage done is by not allowing webmaster to send traffic without a referring url (exit console, etc) unless they get permission from you and are whitelisted.

That way if a spam attack DOES occur, you can redirect all non referring traffic to a page stating the situation. It will buy you some time...a good 2 weeks...rather than days.

If it goes beyond 2 weeks...your backbone will slowly start to demand that you shut off the domain.

This time of spam attack seems to be extremely rare. Like the kind Brad had lasted only a few days.....the one I'm a viction of has been lasting weeks...non stop.

you see this is what i don't understand,, doesn't the backbone provider understand the situation to let you still be in business?

cuz if this is true then this spammer could do the same to any business,, say like a yahoo or ARS,, they could be forced to shut down?

The backbone will cut you some slack for a week or two....but then they'll demand the domain down because it's a "solution" for them since it's stops complaints going TO THEM.

Oh yeah a sponsor like ARS or CE could easily be shut down this way :( .....their cc processor would probably burst faster than their backbone though.

The current anti spam menality is part of the problem too....it's very flawed and it's pretty much gulity until proven innocent.

Candid, there is one sector of folks that you haven't mentioned so far in any of your threads that this could very well be coming from... anti-porn church groups.

We have seen that SOME of them will do ANYthing to force their agendas... such as the abortion clinic bombings. If they are willing to KILL people for their cause, then sending CP would be a small matter. And I'm betting they have members that can spoof on this level that you are experiencing.

Just a thought for you to mull over.

funny..just before I read Gem's post I was thinking the exact same thing. The cyber version of blocking the doorwayof planned parenthood?

When you track this guy down, remember that a good accountant can write off any expense, including "termination with extreme prejudice" - I imagine he would put it in an expense account, perhaps miscellaneous cash..

Cheers,
Backov

Exactly....man whats fucked up about this is that spammer has won his battle againts you & got your domain shut down.

The more domains that get shut down for these reasons, the more the spammers will do it.

Something needs to be done about this quickly.

:321GFY

can't just going to another host with a different provider be a possible solution,,, this just sounds to simple for a group to shut someone down

"Please do not worry about payments. Checks for last period and this period will be paid IN FULL for all traffic sent. Checks and paypals for last period will be going out tomorrow the 20th ofAugust"


Hmmm US mail must be getting slow. August 29, still no check....

9 days and you're crying already?

Actually there was something in the news , that the government thinks the next terrorist attack will be cyber..


Another thought !

Well mine arrived in the uK today. So, if their is a problem it would appear to be with your own post and not them.