Maybe the Dirtiest Affiliate Marketer I've Ever Seen...
I know this has been out for awhile.
But I find it very interesting still today.
Thought I would share it for many of the Newbies around here who do not know about it.
Really fascinating stuff.
Shawn Hogan is the Founder of Digital Point, one of the biggest make money forums in the Universe.
And he was sentenced to Federal Prison this past Summer for 10 years !! ( actually, from Records he only has to spend 5 months. )
Why ??
Over a period of 5 years or so ,Shawn made $28 million as an Ebay affiliate.
Shawn made this tremendous amount of money by stuffing cookies into every single person who visited any of his websites.
So if you or I had gone to Shawn's Site ,unbeknownst to us ,Shawn would automatically assign an Ebay Cookie onto our ID.
So when we left his Site and anytime down the road went and bought something at Ebay........well Shawn would get an Affiliate commission.
The implications were HUGE.
Shawn would get these astronomical Ebay Commission checks without sending them to Ebay through an Affiliate Link.
We are talking about hundreds and thousands of people going to Ebay , and Shawn got credit for them.
Mr. Hogan even had the gall to post on his blog that Ebay knew of this "covert" operation and actually encouraged him to keep on sending the Traffic to their website with his method.
Well, the FBI got whiff of this and in conjunction with Ebay set up a Sting and nailed Mr. Hogan and another accomplice.
It goes to show that taking Shortcuts cannot only cost you money., but it can also cost you your freedom.
-Robert Andrew
P.S. Here is Digital Point Thread right after Shawn was Sentenced. Kind of interesting in that he talked openly right there in the Forum.https://forums.digitalpoint.com/thre...-ouch.2718377/
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