Scott Phillips and And This Atherton Fellow Present A Fairly Accurate Portrait Of Webmastering In Australia. Neary Every Porn Web Guy In Oz Is A Multi-Millionaire. This Guy Atherton Was Making Roughly 10 Million A Month Selling The Three Minute Paris Hilton Sex Clip.....For $200.00 A Pop!!!
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www.AdultBeat.com and
www.GoFuckYourself.com Brisbane Spammer Jon Atherton Takes Hit
by Duke Floored (send email to Duke Floored)
From Atherton's site adstats.com:
We will email webmasters when we are capable. Level 3 yesterday pulled our connectivity with 5 minutes notice – this includes all email, stats and sites.
Consequently the main Adstats servers are offline. A more thorough explanation will be forthcoming in the next few days when we are able to privately communicate with our webmasters. We are working to have it re-instated, but at this stage this seems unlikely and we are moving to a new host.
Some wires are also late. We have recently moved banks and this has caused unexpected delays. Wires will be brought up to date and as always we pay everyone even if the payment is late.
We are staying in business! We have been in business since 1995, and despite what a bunch of haters continually pump onto some webmaster boards we have always paid everyone!!
All wires will be dispatched as the funds arrive in our account – our main servers will be backup next week when we have moved them, for the moment we suggest all advertisers should pull their traffic. We cannot send everyone an email at present – so if you know somebody that sends traffic – tell them about this message!
Thanks and sorry for this massive inconvenience.
MakeMoney writes on GFY: Id bet it wasnt paris that got him..probably the jessica simpson stuff..the paris stuff existed.
Detoxed writes: probably the spam... not the celebrities. read the site. nowhere did he say he had a jessica simpson sex video. he had her name and picture at the top. From then on it was "SHE fucks in this video" "see HER doing all kinds of crazy shit."
Mutt writes: I wish cancer on Atherton and all his family. Don't waste diseases on decent people, give em to the ones who deserve it.
Titus writes: He's triple billing his customers as fast as possible to get the money to pay you all out. I just checked my card statement. Atherton has some pretty wild banking hooks, he has no URL or support phone # in his billing descriptor. If any of you are wondering why VISA keeps tightening regulations on high risk accounts, look no further.
Opti writes to Hooper on Oprano.com: You do sound a bit sour grapes though.. some of your posts talk like you think anyone that sent traffic to Adstats deserves not to get paid and is somehow guilty of supporting some out and out scam. I'm not here to defend them.. But I am pretty damn impressed with what they did with the paris niche.. it was a high risk area to promote.. and they hit it 10 times harder and 100 times more professionaly than anyone else... Considering Paris is the biggest thing to hit our biz this century, I have been wondering why so many others dropped the ball.
At the risk of sounding like I am handing out a back handed compliment... You are one of the most likely people I would have thought would have been fast to jump on the opportunity. If Quickbuck had done anything to help out mailers wanting to capatilise on the interest.. or people with SE traffic for Paris... I bet you would have easily grabbed a big chunk of the traffic that Adstats got!
Toolz writes: I gotta chime in here.
#1. The content was stolen from someone else
#2. The customers cards were crammed with $200 in charges
So did they hit it hard? Yes, professional? LMFAO
Rolo writes: The "hit and run" marketing is here to stay - only ones who can put a stop to it is the police. Banks, ISPs, Affiliates all wash their hands by saying "we can not be held responsible" - guess what, you can be held responsible!
I do find it interesting, that people will sell something they know is a scam, and keep on saying something like "I know its wrong, but damn the money is good"... Are they really thinking this short term? Or prehaps they think they are "the untouchables". Whatever it is, then the good thing is that nature have put a thing in place, which makes sure 99.9% of all scammers get caught - its called greed. They do not know, when to stop, and eventually they are either caught by the police or another scammer takes their money.
Opti writes: I agree they appear to have been able to process a lot more joins than other people... but again, at what point should a webmaster start to say.. I wont send to them becasue they must be doing something dodgy with the processing? As far as cramming $200 per surfer... although it wouldnt surprise me if you are right... I havent heard it before and are you suggesting promoting webmasters could have or should have known about that part of adstats business if it is true?
Its all fine to jump on the bandwagon and point fingers and say "haha, that's kharma" but those that are doing that just appear to be the ones without enough balls or sense to have seen the biggest opportunity we have had to market to non-traditional adult site buyers EVER.
No one said you had to cram cards or use illegal contant to use the opportunity... you just had to be SMART in November... not many prizes are still being given out for knowing it all now, in January.
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