weird affiliate offer from Plimus

[Jack Norton]

Ok, maybe it's 100% legit - However, I just got an offer by email from plimus to sell this site's subscription as affiliate:
http://360downloadcenter.com/

looking at the website and reading the texts, seems a bit too good to be true (and to be legal lol). What do you think ?

(I'm asking because was thinking to buy that for myself but want to be sure is legal!)

[Oddbob]

Yup, it's dodgy as heck.

You only have to look at how many mentions of "high speed downloads" to set off the alarm bells. Keyword city.

Plus, y'know, what are you supposed to do with them after you've downloaded them? Ah, they've got that covered with their "beginners guide".

Avoid.

[jpoag]

Ok, maybe it's 100% legit - However, I just got an offer by email from plimus to sell this site's subscription as affiliate:
http://360downloadcenter.com/

looking at the website and reading the texts, seems a bit too good to be true (and to be legal lol). What do you think ?

(I'm asking because was thinking to buy that for myself but want to be sure is legal!)

Well, one tip off is that every single link on the Internet about 360downloadcenter.com has been written by them. They've spammed the internet by submitting articles and posting fake blogs touting their greatness.

The site was registered very recently:
http://www.nsspy.org/archive/hostgat...0-02-05/1.html

That Plimus affiliate page was written by them. That's their e-commerce landing page.

The pricing and name remind me of the 360 virus scanners. The ones that are trojan adware downloaders. Perhaps they've saturated the previous market [scared old ladies] and have decided to jump to a new one [pirates].

The affiliation bit is a stroke of genius. They run off with their money and you get all the charge backs.

[hippocoder]

DISCLAIMER

This site and the products and services offered on this site are not associated, affiliated, endorsed, or sponsored by Microsoft, nor have they been reviewed, tested, or certified by Microsoft.

And yet they have microsoft games on their front page. This is a scam.

[Adrian Lopez]

Definitely looks like a scam. Somebody who knows who to contact should contact both Microsoft and Plimus to let them know about this.

[Jack Norton]

Ok so it's as I suspected, but what worries me is that the email was from PLIMUS, not them!

360 Download Center Affiliate Offers - Brought To You By Plimus

Didn't they check this before sending out the newsletter to all affiliates ??

[zoombapup]

Check the copy on the "welcome" part. Definitely not legit. Mistakes in there suggest foriegners too.

Yeah, how can plimus who are so anal about chargebacks and fraud allow this? maybe thats WHY they were phoning customers? Maybe the CC companies saw that they had too high a chargeback count and told them to clean up their act, maybe this happens a lot.

Idle speculation can be fun!

[Adrian Lopez]

Check out the typos in the FAQ section:

Q: Do I need to pay mouthly fee for the site membership?
A: We decided to provide the membership only for a small onetime fee. You only have to pay once for a life time membership.

Q: What do I get with the membership?
A: You membership includes instant unlimited access to our download section. We provide xbox 360 games, movies, music, software and a free guide for beginners.

And no monthly fee for unlimited downloads of commercial games?

[rioka]

Ok so it's as I suspected, but what worries me is that the email was from PLIMUS, not them!

That doesn't mean anything. From what little I know of it, there's a way to change the From email address to whatever a smart spammer wants. I get emails from myself all the time and I know I didn't send myself scammy letters.

[Jack Norton]

No no, it was really from plimus, it wasn't a fake email, I'm sure 100% about this. It had all the various fields, address matched, etc.
I don't think I'm the only affiliate who got it...

[JarkkoL]

Did you ask Plimus, because that's the only way to know for sure. Spammers can fake all the stuff in emails as they wish, so what ever there's in the email proves nothing.

[papillon]

This innocent trust of Plimus is odd; while it's not impossible it's rather unlikely that they would manage to fake a message to all plimus affiliates (yes, I got the mail too). Unless they'd hacked Plimus to get the mailing list and then it would STILL need to be brought to Plimus's attention.

Not to mention that it's on their website as their official newsletter.

[Jack Norton]

Did you ask Plimus, because that's the only way to know for sure. Spammers can fake all the stuff in emails as they wish, so what ever there's in the email proves nothing.

Doubt they could fake a custom URL to unsubscribe from plimus that WORKED
(yes, I'm not interested in receiving such offers anymore lol)

[Indinera]

I got it and deleted it lol

[JarkkoL]

Doubt they could fake a custom URL to unsubscribe from plimus that WORKED

Unless the site is hacked and it's not www. plimuz.com/unsubscribe

[electronicStar]

Yeah I'd avoid clicking an UNSUBSCRIBE link in a fishy email.

[Jack Norton]

Yeah sorry, I am dumb and I just got 150 trojans on my pc! OMGZ ! I can't find a difference between a fake and a real email!

Just so you understand it (since seems you don't):
THE EMAIL WAS REAL

understood? That's why I was shocked that a company like Plimus sent such an email without even checking that the site is a scam!!!!!!!

[rioka]

That is strange.

...Unless Plimus was thrown a bucket load of money by this particular affiliate to mention them in their newsletter.

[Adrian Lopez]

I'm guessing it's just a computer-generated promotion. An algorithm of some sort chooses one of Plimus' clients to promote and sends out the corresponding email to all affiliates. As luck of the draw would have it, they just happened to pick one of those that happen to be running what looks like a scam.