Quote from Cynthia McPhee on July 21, 2023, 9:35 pm

This is a great topic to tackle straight off the bat. Most often than not, Its our new Affiliate Marketers that fall prey to scams. The never ending promise of big dollars &  easy systems are blinding to ignore. Sometimes even the oldies with 20 years experience, are blinded by scammer bling. 8 months ago I returned to Affiliate Marketing after a number of years off & I was adamant that my eyes would be open.

My first hiccup came when I was introduced to Cliqly in its early stages. I must admit, it really was a great re entry for me. Sending pre written emails to over 50k people a day, whilst being able to promote my Affiliate links & build a lead list at the same time was music to my ears. My own issues started when I ran out of email credits (the catch) & you are expected to buy one of 5 packages to send more emails. I chose the cheapest with the least amount of credits @ $97 (that's a lot of money for me). I noticed that the purchased credits weren't reflected in my account straight away, nor did I recieve a receipt/Invoice to my email address. For 4 days I emailed support without a reply. On the 5th day, an email arrived with an Invoice. The only thing that was correct on the invoice was my name, & the last 4 digits of my credit card.  They did not have the correct email address ( don't know who's email address it was) & the Cliqly account number they used was not MY Cliqly account number. Support would not enter into any discussion because my name was correct, the last 4 digits on my card were correct & they had emailed the dodgy invoice to the correct email address. The super sleuth in me worked out that they had created a new/fake account using my name & had allocated my paid for credits to this account. I was able to see the account in Cliqly by searching the new account number but I was not able to log in using the fake email because I didnt have the password.

To me - I had been scammed & while there are a lot of people using & cashing in on the Cliqly platform & singing it's praises, I have been left with a very bad taste in my mouth & I wonder just how many others have had the same experience & may not have noticed.

SCAMS AREN'T ALWAYS IN YOUR FACE - Like Warrior Plus

Have you ever purchased a product from Warrior Plus? DON'T!!. Over a period of 6 months, this year, I have roughly spent 5k on Warrior Plus products - 16 products in total. EVERY SINGLE ONE of these products have been a scam. They are beautifully presented, reasonably priced (until you have to buy the add ons) & full of promises that are blatant lies. Each one of the 16 products are faulty in so many ways - Vital links no longer work, promised by sales pitch & paid for vital content is missing, Dashboards & websites are not as advertised & what you do have are useless without the required (& advertised) tools, Tutorials are completely missing from the product purchase (eg: Lesson1,2,3,6) & non existant on dashboards, although the tutorial tab is there, Links to support are broken or the web site no longer exists, I can go on & on.

Warrior Plus state - If you have an issue with your product or wish to get a refund, contact the vendor associated with your product purchase DO NOT contact Warrior Plus. Each product has a vendor contact email address & a vendor support website to log a ticket for support. I have not had a reply to 71 emails to 4 different vendors (even though I continue to receive promotional emails from them daily) or a reply to 23 tickets logged with support. I even got really angry & presented it all to Warrior Plus - No reply. My 16 product purchases have been taken out of my account & I am no longer authorised to access them & I have not received a refund. LASTLY... My bank account has been completely stripped 3 times & I have an ongoing dispute with Paypal because a husband & wife vendor couple charged my Paypal & 2 different bank accounts for the same 4 products 3 times totalling $1600 AUD. Paypal believes the vendors & I have to pay Paypal back on all products that I have paid for 3 times already.

Sometimes it doesn't matter how hard we try to avoid being scammed - The scammers are so good at what they do & even oldies like me get taken for a ride.

In conclusion - EVERYTHING Dan has touched on in his opening thread, lights me up in neon pink. No matter how diligent I thought I was & how hard I tried to protect my personal information & accounts - The scammers were 10 x better. Be careful out there, they are everywhere. Personally, I don't know how they sleep at night...