FAKE charity affiliate SPAM: William Hill, Full Tilt, Victor Chandler, Bingo.com, etc

**Roanan** · 27th March 2010, 11:04 PM

Just when I thought spammers couldn't sink to a new low, someone decided to prove me wrong.

I received this:

Hello Again from Online Gaming 4 Charity.Lets make a difference..

We have some fantastic sign up offers this week, and please dont forget, you get CASHBACK and raise money for CHARITY aswell.

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Click any of the images to sign up or click the link to our website for all of our affiliate providers, including CASINO , SPORTSBOOK and BINGO.
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Remember you can receive upto 80% of the commission you pay back to your bank account to resuse.
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When you get to the web page itself, you find all of the following affiliate links:

fulltiltpoker.com/?key=MDAwMTBDNTgwMDAyQzg3NTIwNjI0MDI0MDAwMDAwMDE-

fulltiltpoker.com/download.php?key=MDAwMTBDNTgwMDAyQzg3NTAwMDAwMDAwM DAwMDAwMDA-

serve.eurogrand.com/promoRedirect?member=nickhubbard&campaign=DEFAULT& channel=DEFAULT&zone=583521175&lp=13513526

banner.mansionpoker.com/cgi-bin/redir.cgi?nickhubbard

serve.williamhill.com/promoRedirect?member=nickhubbard&campaign=DEFAULT& channel=DEFAULT&zone=583301991&lp=46303113

serve.williamhill.com/promoRedirect?member=nickhubbard&campaign=DEFAULT& channel=DEFAULT&zone=1142940979&lp=1142941028

banners.victor.com/processing/clickthrgh.asp?btag=a_22022b_2016

banners.victor.com/processing/clickthrgh.asp?btag=a_22022b_2614

affiliates.bingo.com/processing/clickthrgh.asp?btag=a_1032b_160

affiliates.bingo.com/processing/clickthrgh.asp?btag=a_1032b_104

serve.rubybingo.com/promoRedirect?member=nickhubbard&campaign=DEFAULT& channel=DEFAULT&zone=734659885&lp=13510246

serve.rubybingo.com/promoRedirect?member=nickhubbard&campaign=DEFAULT& channel=DEFAULT&zone=1280991284&lp=13510246

In addition to all of those affiliate banners, there's also a link to their 'charity' The UK Breast Cancer Foundation.

The reply back from them?

'The names Nick Hubbard and onlinegaming4charity.com are not familiar to us nor do we have a record of ever receiving any donation from either of these sources.'

You're a bad boy Mr. Hubbard, therefore it's time you got spanked.

Your ISP and website providers have already been notified by phone and/or email and have confirmed that you have violated their TOS and your accounts will be closed, and your spam has been forwarded to SpamCop so those privileges will also be lost.

In addition, this thread here will be forwarded to every single affiliate manager.

To the casino/affiliate managers reading this thread:

As this criminal claimed to be donating 50% of his commissions to charity although he was actually putting 100% into his pocket, I request that all commissions earned be confiscated and LEGITIMATELY forwarded to charity.

**vinylweatherman** · 27th March 2010, 11:47 PM

He's probably set up with "cut & run" in mind. This is actually a VERY SERIOUS offence, and he would be advised to keep out of the UK for now. A spell in JAIL would be likely if caught, because of how LOW this particular fraud stooped. Unfortunately, any money that has already been paid over has probably long gone, and unless the program managers act fast, he will get the money for March too, there being only 3 working days left.

There are GENUINE cashback sites like this, who include casinos and poker as a SMALL PART of the selection of merchants they have partnered with, and a player could join one of these, and donate the cashback himself to charity.

In general, another reason this looks dodgy is that it is effectively an affiliate offering up to 80% rakeback to players joining through the site. Given the extreme hostility shown towards rakeback sites in poker by operators, and the fact that there are many poker sites in this spam, this MUST be a con; although many inexperianced players will not know enough about the industry to know this. The first they will know is when the payments never arrive as promised where they have selected to receive it, rather than have it donated. They will also have given their bank details to this con artist in order to be able to receive the payments.

**Roanan** · 28th March 2010, 12:45 AM

I've now contacted every site involved.

Too bad I had to do it individually as the only two that have reps are Mansion and William Hill, but they haven't been active since last year.

I did reach a manager at Victor Chandler via LiveChat who was appalled and assured me that this will be dealt with, although I have yet to hear back from anyone else.

**vinylweatherman** · 28th March 2010, 12:52 AM

Originally Posted by Roanan

I've now contacted every site involved.

Too bad I had to do it individually as the only two that have reps are Mansion and William Hill, but they haven't been active since last year.

I did reach a manager at Victor Chandler via LiveChat who was appalled and assured me that this will be dealt with, although I have yet to hear back from anyone else.

Maybe they WILL manage to react in time, if the info in the spam is enough to track the affiliate. He is probably expecting to at least get his March payments before doing a runner, so let's hope he can have a bad Easter.

Payments often go out in the first few days of the following month, so there is still a chance to place a freeze on them pending investigation, it is NOT necessary to complete the investigation first, and let the March payments be diverted from their advertised destination. Who knows, other players might think of contacting the charity to see whether the money has been flowing, and they will get the same reply.
The programs should also know where this person LIVES and banks; this would be helpful to the police, as this is a criminal matter, or at least the charity concerned, who have been misused in this con, and might seek damages themselves if this prat can be got at without too much cost.