Bee-Gold Clix got hacked!

We have some sad news from the PTC industry.. We've heard that one of the legitimate PTC sites, Bee-Gold Clix, got hacked just this April 24th.. The perpetrator was said to had managed to pass through Bee-Gold Clix's defenses through a back door found on Bee-Gold's script.

The script used on Bee-Gold Clix was the YourOwnBux script, the script that had been rumored to have holes in it. This script was sold at a cheap price, and although the owner assured the public that it has been fixed, the incident that got Bee-Gold hacked shows that it's still faulty.

As for Bee-Gold Clix, the admin better make it a priority to reimburse those who lost money on the site as it was his responsibility. However, with Bee-Gold's funds stolen and transferred to the hacker's account, the owner finds it prudent to shut down the site for the time being. The owner says that the site will be back, and if that is the case, the future profits should be used for such an event to slowly make its way out of debt.

Eadaywaheax.cn: More thrash from the Canadian Healthcare Spammers

Using an email spoofing technique, and pretending to be Microsoft Corporation, the spammers behind the illegitimate site Canadian Healthcare is at it again with another scam site named Eadaywaheax.cn.

But when traced...

Domain Name: eadaywaheax.cn
ROID: 20080425s10001s03615736-cn
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registrant Organization: N/A
Registrant Name: snup alekson
Administrative Email:
Sponsoring Registrar: 广东时代互联科技有限公司
Name Server:ns1.noeiira.com
Name Server:ns2.noeiira.com
Registration Date: 2008-04-25 01:01
Expiration Date: 2009-04-25 01:01

Extended Info

IP Address: 116.123.47.67
IP Location: Korea, Republic of
Website Status: active
Server Type: Apache/2.0.58 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.58 OpenSSL/0.9.7f PHP/4.4.7
Cache Date: 2008-04-26 12:12:09 MST

From South Korea? So, there you have it folks.. more scam from the stupendous hordes of scammers.

Sholerdegree.com: Newly discovered Scam

I enjoyed receiving spams lately due to my eagerness to bust them right up, and reveal their nasty tricks to the public. This month alone, I have added a dozen of them into the scam list. The scams vary from PTC sites to Online Pharmacies and Paypal Phishing sites. Most of them poses no potential threat but a considerable number of them could be quiet remarkable.

The fake Online Pharmacies composes most of the spam mails circulating the net today, and I have caught some of them. Canadian Pharmacy, Canadian Healthcare, and just recently, I find something new.. Canadian Health&Care Mall.



Actually, this is not new to others, but this scam had somehow finally found its way into my spam mail (my net) the first time around, and that's why they are busted here on my blog. And here, is where I am going to reveal their modus operandi..

The Scam Antics

This site uses fake license, fake doctors, fake address, and of course, faked or no drugs at all! In other words, this site is nothing but pure garbage.

The "About Us" section of this site includes a heartwarming description of its beginnings as a "store of so-called 'useful things,'" written in rather clumsy English. They brag about selling "medication of the best possible quality, licensed and working." But with a fake license, we can conclude what kind of drugs they are selling..

The doctors they use on their page are also not real members of the site. They are pictures taken from www.gettyimage.com according to Spamtrackers.eu.

The addresses they use are also a piece of their mambo jumbo, as according to Google Maps, there are no such offices on the locations they pointed out on their site.



The seals they use on this site also mean nothing. Note that non of these agencies approved them, they just made it up to make their site, at least, look legitimate when in fact, it's not.

Finally, the site uses fake registrations by using other people's names or made-up names to register the site. And as you can see.. no part of the site is real.. they are fictitious imaginations of the crazy scam artists that are desperate enough to make money, thus, using the lamest of all ways!

See SpamTrackers.eu Report

Whois?

Domain Name: sholerdegree.com

Status: clientDeleteProhibited, clientTransferProhibited, clientUpdateProhibited

Registrar: MONIKER ONLINE SERVICES, INC.
Whois Server: whois.moniker.com
Referral URL: http://www.moniker.com/whois.html

Expiration Date: 2009-03-15
Creation Date: 2008-03-15
Last Update Date: 2008-03-15

Name Servers:
ns1.seramo.ru
ns2.nurete.ru

Extended Info

IP Address: 202.107.240.246
IP Location: China
Website Status: inactive
Cache Date: 2008-04-25 02:34:53 MST
Compare Archived Data: 2008-04-08

Busted!

Figuewhitewindax.cn: Lousy name for a Lousy Business

This is another one of those Canadian Healthcare scams that had been promoted by the guy known only as snup alekson, the same idiot who promotes Daogaecallx.cn. It appears that this registrant had created more than one Canadian Healthcare websites with different domain names that sounds as stupid as the registrant himself/herself.

Domain Name: figuewhitewindax.cn
ROID: 20080425s10001s03599035-cn
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registrant Organization: N/A
Registrant Name: snup alekson
Administrative Email:
Sponsoring Registrar: 广东时代互联科技有限公司
Name Server:ns1.noeiira.com
Name Server:ns2.noeiira.com
Registration Date: 2008-04-25 01:00
Expiration Date: 2009-04-25 01:00

Extended Info

IP Address: 211.49.115.50
IP Location: Korea, Republic of
Website Status: active
Server Type: Apache/2.0.58 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.58 OpenSSL/0.9.7f PHP/4.4.7
Cache Date: 2008-04-25 02:19:27 MST

What can I say, they never ran out of lousy names for their lousy businesses...

Daogaecallx.cn: Canadian Healthcare Spam/Scam

Spammers and scammers never run out of fresh domain names. They invested their money on something that can harm their fellow, that is why we should try to put a stop to this by not patronizing their products. Unfortunately, many still falls to the same scam trick, and this mistake, helps refinance the dirty scam industry, that is why we never cease to encounter these nonsense.

Among the spam links promoted by Canadian Healthcare is Daogaecallx.cn. One of the websites use to sell illegal, unlicensed products. They claim to be a Canadian online pharmacy, when in fact, they are actually from Asia.

Domain Name: daogaecallx.cn
ROID: 20080425s10001s03609438-cn
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registrant Organization: N/A
Registrant Name: snup alekson
Administrative Email:
Sponsoring Registrar: 广东时代互联科技有限公司
Name Server: ns1.noeiira.com
Name Server: ns2.noeiira.com
Registration Date: 2008-04-25 01:01
Expiration Date: 2009-04-25 01:01

Extended Info

IP Address: 116.123.47.67
IP Location: Korea, Republic of
Website Status: active
Server Type: Apache/2.0.58 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.58 OpenSSL/0.9.7f PHP/4.4.7
Cache Date: 2008-04-25 02:01:19 MST

Do not patronize this product, and do help spread the word about this website. We can help kill these scammers by draining them of their lifeblood - Money. If they don't sell, they don't earn, if they don't earn, they don't have money, and if they don't have money.. their business is going to die!

Adverbux.com got bombed!

You may wonder why adverbux is gone, they seem to have been lagging pretty badly.. At first, I thought they were just having site maintenance, but to my horror, it's actually far worst than that.

Just recently, I got word from SeanyBob himself, the owner of Adverbux. He announced it on the Adverbux site and told us that the site had been under DOS (Denial of Service) attacked by still unknown suspects.

At first, Seanybob thought that it was nothing bad, just a large number of users on at the same time, but he found out just this morning that what actually was occurring was a crude DOS attack. The adverbux server was overloaded. In addition, once he got most of the services on the server restored, he found that the database had been badly corrupted, as have several of the backups that he stored on the server.

He further told us that such an attack could obviously had been planned well, and were instigated by skilled hackers.

Seanybob ordered a new server, which will be set up within a few days, depending on the company he got it from. He ensured that this server is many times more powerful than the previous server, strong enough to blunt such attacks. As for the database, he's currently trying to recover what files he can salvaged. He do have some several backups saved on his laptop, but unfortunately, they are not the most recent. He, however, promises to recover whatever information he can from the server. He said that all is not fully lost, and there are several more tricks he haven't tried yet. He may be able to recover the files from a couple of hours before the crash.

Got Paid by DonkeyMails

Today, I got paid by DonkeyMails, a PTC/PTR site that I have been a member for 1-2 months now. This site had been around for 3 years already, probably one of the old running PTC/PTR sites out there. Their method of earning/advertising are somewhat classical, still, we cannot argue the fact that they are one of the old running legitimate sites that are still supported by Paypal.

I had been clicking on their PTC ads, and reading their PTR emails tirelessly with only one referral, whose activity is not even good, but despite of that, I still manage to reach payout. I gotta say this, my hard work for this site is well-deserved. Here's a proof of my payment.

Click on picture to enlarge

How long did it took me to reach payout? About 1 1/2 - 2 months, anyhow, they have beaten the other PTC sites (such as Bux.to) when it comes to payments.

The Classic System used by DonkeyMails

DonkeyMails uses a classic PTC/PTR system that had been around since 2 years ago, and they seem to stick to it. However, their system is one of the most stable, despite the fact, that it's not that profitable compared to the new system employed nowadays.

Their PTC ads is worth $0.0001 - $0.01, and this kind of puts Paypal users at a disadvantage since most of the PTC ads are worth only around 0.01 cent and 0.1 cent, meaning, it's going to take you a lot of effort and time to reach your $1 payout, but if you're E-Gold, you can request for a payout anytime. Bottom line is, it's really going to take a lot of hard work. Fortunately, DonkeyMails had more offers that could compensate for its weak PTC-earning potential. The PTRs DonkeyMails sent you is worth fair enough, somewhat around $0.0025 (0.25 cents) - $0.01 (1 cent). This seems to be where they are really good at, thus the name, DonkeyMails. They have also other good offers for advertisers, Point to Click is one of them, since this allows you to earn points and use it for advertising even without actually buying. Moreover, they also offer an upgrade in exchange for points, so if you're a good clicker, you're really going to enjoy this site. There are also Paid to Promote, Paid to Review, etc. offers, just look around the site, and see if you can find something to your advantage.

Final Word

I have to admit that I judged this site poorly on my first reviews, and even if I had to be an ass for sticking to this old site, I'm still going to take my chances, now that I know they are truly legitimate.

Sebas Broekhof, the owner of DonkeyMails is truly an honest man, just like what others say.