Comments on: Affiliate Marketing & Fraud: Separated At Birth?

By: Exposed: How Shady Networks Shave Leads — Inside Affiliate

Exposed: How Shady Networks Shave Leads — Inside Affiliate — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 02:54:09 +0000

[...] away from their affiliates. As an affiliate myself, this really pisses me off. Sort of like when Packet Stuffer came out. It never ceases to amaze me how people will try to cheat each other out of a buck instead [...]

By: del hickman

del hickman — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:40:59 +0000

I dont know if thats been happening to me but I get thousands of clicks and no sales.cj..nothing…cb…nothing-.-I had 500 clicks at linkshare and some cost me 3.00 a click and no sales.almost seems impossible.

By: aria

aria — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:14:44 +0000

in all areas of business there are always people who got greedy and wanted a lot of money with instant way.

By: Enrico

Enrico — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:52:33 +0000

Fucking moralists..

By: Packet Stuffer

Packet Stuffer — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:35:27 +0000

No Josh, this is not a trojan. This is simply an executable file that has one simple purpose. That is changing the filtration rules. People still get the same program they intended to to download/install. Packet Stuffer is not malicious and has no negative effect on anyone's computers.

Thanks Dan for your support. Many people including Josh will always be against such software.. Look at piratebay and how many people were against them when they just launched. How many companies tried shutting them down etc.. This is the same story. Of course people will try shutting us down, but there will always be one packet stuffer.

By: Josh Todd

Josh Todd — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:52:32 +0000

@Packet Stuffer – I didn't even go into the details of how you get people to install the software. Essentially you are encouraging affiliates to hide a Trojan in software or movies or other files that they are distributing through Torrents (or other methods) to infect computers with Packet Stuffer.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:14:43 +0000

excellent tool , I must say that developer of that tool has excellent skill.

Josh why not you try this product and earn money.

By: Packet Stuffer

Packet Stuffer — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:04:46 +0000

Good luck people. We came out with an amazing product and ofcourse thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people will be bashing it because what it does is immoral. It does make people money and it is 100% legal. This is a brilliant idea and unfortunately anyone who isn't using it is just against it due to the fact that they aren't making as much money as the people who do use it.

Thank you for your insight though Josh,

Maybe you can write another article explaining the pros of this software

By: Josh Todd

Josh Todd — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:34:41 +0000

There's not really a good way to defend against Packet Stuffer, because it works on a packet level. The good news is that most affiliate networks would sniff out this bogus traffic and disable the affiliate accounts asap. I know I will be on the lookout for them.

By: Lin

Lin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:05:22 +0000

Hi Josh,

Great article. Do you have any tips on how legit affiliates can protect against tools such as packet stuffer?