Best Pay Partners affiliate spam

[thepokerkeep]

I've received 7 spam emails from GAMINGAFFILIATESBLOG.COM in the last 2 days. Every email is identical and is only spamming Best Pay Partners. Here is the email complete with affiliate ID, header and source code:

Hi there

I just came across this great affiliate program called best pay
partners.


They have excellent commission offers and even accept US traffic.


I have been in the business since the beginning and have never seen
better revenue and Conversions than with these guys.


Sign up here and you can make tons of money right away!


xxhttp://bestpaypartners.com/get/a/1123321xx


Header:

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for <xxx@thepokerkeep.com>; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:38:20 -0100 (GMT+1)
To: "xxx@thepokerkeep.com"@mail.fast-plays.com
From: GAMINGAFFILIATESBLOG.COM <noreply@GAMINGAFFILIATESBLOG.COM>
Reply-To: GAMINGAFFILIATESBLOG.COM <noreply@GAMINGAFFILIATESBLOG.COM>
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To: "xxx@thepokerkeep.com"@mail.fast-plays.com
From: GAMINGAFFILIATESBLOG.COM <noreply@GAMINGAFFILIATESBLOG.COM>
Reply-To: GAMINGAFFILIATESBLOG.COM <noreply@GAMINGAFFILIATESBLOG.COM>
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[thepokerkeep]

For the record, BestPay Partners is the affiliate program for
21GrandCasino.com and Supremeplay.com


I have also reported the affiliate to antispam@21grandcasino.com.


The site: GAMINGAFFILIATESBLOG.COM is a simple holding page with no content.

The site fast-plays.com (pulled from header) is also a holding page void of content.

[thepokerkeep]

Correction - 18 emails from this asshole! They just keep coming.....

[Anthony]

I had to deal with Best Pay Partners for a player payment issue. I will contact them and let them know of your post.

[universal4]

I got 2 of these this morning...but I haven't checked my other email accounts yet.

I did some research....

The mail from (appears to be genuine) From: xxGAMINGAFFILIATESBLOG.COM <noreply@GAMINGAFFILIATESBLOG.COM>
The message ID of the mail is Message-ID: <20100701103324.4218.192382127.xxswift@fast-plays.com>
The mail server part of the header shows the correct ip address of the sending mail server which matches the message id.

Received: from mail.fast-plays.com [85.17.162.231] by xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx with ESMTP
(SMTPD-9.10) id A92B0210; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:08:43 -0400
Received: from [85.17.162.231] (MAL001.local [127.0.0.1])

Doing a ping of either the xxGAMINGAFFILIATESBLOG.COM, or the xxfast-plays.com returns an ip that matches the sending mail server, and there is no website at those domains so they are currently being used for the purpose of spam right now.

xxGAMINGAFFILIATESBLOG.COM created 6-24-2010
xxfast-plays.com created 6-24-2010

As you can see both of these domains were created this past week, and this is an indication that this individual knows exactly what they were doing and therefore the affiliate program should not be so quick to fall for some sort of excuse that it was a mistake or they didn't mean to do it....

This was very calculated and controlled, and my guess is whoever did this has purchased a fairly up-to-date list of affiliates....

This person should be named and shamed....and hung upside by his....."toenails".....until such time as he reveals the source of the list....in addition to having his affiliate account closed....

Rick
Universal4

[pompeyrayuk]

Well they must be desperate is all I can say cos even I got em

[arkyt]

Got the same SPAM as well ... I see numerous sponsor programs have felled to promptly respond to the last complaint!

[Chips]

Eight or nine of them in my inbox too. I am going to follows Terry's lead and report it to the program. Not that I think they will do a thing about it...

[casinobonusguy]

I got about 10 copies of this email :

Hi there

I just came across this great affiliate program called best pay partners.


They have excellent commission offers and even accept US traffic.


I have been in the business since the beginning and have never seen better revenue and


Conversions than with these guys.


This is a great way to get on my website and impress other affiliates.Whoever came up with this marketing idea needs to go back to school ASAP.
A GPWA member had a payment issue with them ,they paid him after I sent them an email then thought I should now work with them because they paid his bill.I wonder if any idiot with a few thousand dollars can open a casino with this software,certainly seems like it.


Judy

[casinobonusguy]

Sorry guys i just started a thread and didn't see this one , i got same issue too.
The one email they sent to is our Corporate email which does not link to any gaming site so now i have to check my rivals to see which of these we communicate via the biz email.I personally thing Rival ,the software company is hanging by a thread and we will see a bunch of new skins rolled out to try to get new money in.

Judy

[universal4]

No problem, I merged your post into this thread...

Rick
Universal4

[Shaun O'neill]

LOL what fools they sent it to me 3 times, WTF come on....

Shaun

[AE-Martyn]

I got this also...a couple of times. It's one of two things (possibly both)...

1. A crap old list of affiliats merged from a few programs.

2. A spider on affiliate sites which has picked up not only any email that maybe placed on an aff site but also those places on forums such as this one.

Anyone know the aff managers there?

Is there a new one?

Makes sense as they probably have a list of "personal contacts".

[Best pay Partners]

Hey Guys

I have just seen this thread and as I am from Best Pay I am going to look into this on Monday morning to find what has happened,
We def do not want to be sending spam mail so I need to see what is going on,
Can you please let me know when you guys received the 1st one.

Sorry again

Thanks
BPP

[thepokerkeep]

Hey Guys

I have just seen this thread and as I am from Best Pay I am going to look into this on Monday morning to find what has happened,
We def do not want to be sending spam mail so I need to see what is going on,
Can you please let me know when you guys received the 1st one.

Sorry again

Thanks
BPP

I believe I received the first email on the 28th of June. Thanks for looking into this. I look forward to NOT receiving more spam from this account (or any other!).

The affiliate ID is: 1123321
http://bestpaypartners.com/get/a/1123321

If this is an affiliate, I hope you take severe action with him and let us know exactly what the outcome is.
And if it's a house account, the person sending these mails needs to be fired.

[Best pay Partners]

Hey
I have checked and this has not come from us but one of our affiliates who we have had words with and asked not to send these emails out again.

Again i am sorry for this, no one likes spamming.

If this happens again please can you email me and let me know at
claire@bestpaypartners.net

thanks again
Claire