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We have tested so many times figures in real time, even when other details were also supplied in real time, and could never find any program that didn’t cheat the affiliates.
A typical example of a classic scam used by so many crooks. This affiliate asked a friend to deposit money and lose it. The sale didn’t show up in his figures in “real time” supplied by the thieves. The affiliate asked another friend to also make a deposit 8 hours later. He then asked a third friend to make a deposit and lose the money 3 hours after the second friend.
This affiliate waited patiently for 15 hours, and when the three sales still didn’t show up on his figures, he called the senior system administrator in charge of all the systems for the game developer.
The affiliate asked if everything was normal, and if the sales were processed without any problem in the last 24 hours. The most senior system administrator checked and confirmed that there was no record whatsoever of any problem, anywhere on the systems for the last 24 hours. The system administrator confirmed that deposits were processed normally, all the servers were up and running smoothly, no incident whatsoever was seen on any of the systems.
This system administrator was actually monitoring all the systems in real time during his entire shift as part of his normal work.
The affiliate told the system administrator that he wanted to know why the sales he generated were not showing up in his figures “in real time”
but didn’t supply any details of the missing sales to the system administrator.
The system administrator then asked the affiliate to wait on the telephone while he was checking his systems. A few minutes later, he informed the affiliate that he just saw a deposit going through for $20 that should show up in the affiliate’s figures.
The deposit for $20 was the first one showing up on the affiliate’s figures for the last 3 full days, and it only showed up after the affiliate called the system administrator and strongly complained.
If this sounds bad, wait until you hear the rest of this true story.
The first deposit and loss made by the affiliate’s friend was for $400 and it never showed up, ever.
The second deposit and loss made by the affiliate’s second friend was for $250 and it never showed up either.
The third deposit and loss made by the affiliate’s third friend was for $1,000 and it never showed up either, ever.
The only deposit that showed up on the affiliate’s figure was the one for $20 after he complained to the system administrator, but guess what?
The deposit for $20 showed up, but the crooked figures showed that the player won $4,950 so the affiliate was down for the day, down for the week, and down for the entire month. He didn’t get a penny for the entire month.
We are certain that the tests were properly done because we set them up for the affiliate.
Each of the three computers used for the tests had their hard drives reformatted to make sure they were clean. Each computer was in a different location and used a different IP address.
Fresh installs of Windows were done on each of the computers. No cookies could have been set on the browsers because the three computers just had a fresh install done after the formatting of their hard drives, and no site was visited, and no clicks were made.
The software with the games was then downloaded, and installed, for the first time, after clicking on the affiliate banner for the first time.
The three affiliate’s friends who made these tests never gambled online before, and never installed any software, or clicked on any banners.
They didn’t have any account with any online gambling operators.
We then tested the affiliate’s traffic to see how good, or bad it was. We hooked up his traffic for two weeks to games we fully controlled, and didn’t allow anyone to interfere with the tests. No crooked game developer, licensee, or marketing company. Only the games and the affiliate’s traffic. Nobody else had access to the servers for these tests.
The results of this two weeks tests showed that the affiliate had quality targeted traffic. The reports clearly showed that during the entire two weeks, the longest amount of time without a deposit was 38 minutes, and this was at 4:42 AM Eastern time. The majority of his traffic was from North America, and the rest from Europe, Asia and Australia.
The reports showed that deposits and losses were going through every few minutes, rarely over 6 minutes in between them, and very often every couple of minutes.
The two weeks’ test for this affiliate generated net losses by the players of $219,345 which means that this affiliate had traffic that could easily generate at least $450,000 per month, but much more, if you count the repeat business. In the previous month, he didn’t make a penny for the same traffic when he was hooked up to the crooked marketing company, and the rigged systems.
It’s not that he didn’t make any money because players won money that month, players didn’t win, the sales were simply not credited to the affiliate. Straight stealing, the old fashioned way.
We have full of true horror tests and reports like this one, one worse than the other, and from all the big and small game developers, from the smallest licensees to the biggest ones, and from nearly all the marketing companies.
We didn’t test each and every crooked operator out there, because it will be hard to find an honest one. We have seen thousands of very serious and genuine complaints at all levels, from the inside of these companies, and from the outside.
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