This
site looked fairly promising when we first saw it thanks to its
professional design. The terms and conditions seemed pretty standard
apart from a few small parts about cheating. One of these areas was:
Members who are caught cheating will have their account terminated and
will not be paid their earnings.
Instances of cheating include the following:
1) Clicking on more than 3 cheat links in a 1 month period.
2) Caught using automated software to access the site.
3) Having multiple accounts. Examples: same IP address, same payment
account or same computer ID.
4) Clicking on too many incorrect turing numbers.
5) Having incorrect info listed in user's account
6) Having "I cheat" selected in the keyword section of your account
We thought that the number 3 was outdated and rushed considering most
homes in the modern world use networks that share IP. Spelling mistake
on number 4 kind of confirmed how rushed it was. Once we had finished
reading the terms we signed up to a registration process that did
include a few useless anti cheat boxes in the interest options. Gaining
our account we went to test their performance at PTC.
Performance
The first thing we noticed about their ads was they were advertising
them for $0.03 so we clicked the first ad which brought up this message
page.
It
seemed acceptable to have one message come up before you could start
your count down but….
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Administrative Message #44 - Submitting Your Ads! |
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Hello!
When submitting ptcs and banners, please use the following
standard:
For Paid-Link URL:
http://www.yourwebsite.com
For Banner URL:
http://www.yourwebsite.com/images/banner.gif or banner.jpg
Any ads submitted without a banner image file will no longer
be processed and your credits will not be refunded!
Best regards,
Shaun |
Which
of course wasn’t enough…
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Administrative Message #143 - Important Changes on
NocturnalEmail |
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Hello,
As of August 1st, 2007 the affiliate page cpm will be
$0.10/1000 - no approved list, you can advertise anywhere!
As of August 1st, 2007 the ptp cpm rate will return to
$0.65/1000.
As of August 15th, 2007 NocturnalEmail will no longer have
the ptp feature. (Less than 9% of all members are using the
ptp feature.)
Instead we will have more higher value ads :-)
Look for increased referral commissions starting August 15,
2007 :-)
Best regards,
Shaun |
This Shaun is a real talker aye?
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Administrative Message #144 - PTP Update |
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Hello,
Minimum exchange amount for ptp credits has been set to 1.
Don't forget to exchange your credits before August 1st!
Best regards,
Shaun |
Then this message to tell us
some old news…
AW Survey is a scam site - they do NOT pay!
Best regards,
Shaun
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Administrative Message #147 - Few Updates |
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Hello,
Thank you for being supportive. I am almost caught up wiht
emails and point conversions and all pending payouts will be
completed by latest tomorrow as well.
Click contest will be tomorrow from 6 pm to 9 pm server
time.
Few scam alerts:
clickbuxg.org - payment sent for upgrade.. but account NOT
upgraded, nor any response to email
Mintysmails - behind in payouts
beyondmails - not making payouts and removed contact form
Maple ptr - behind in payouts (over 1 month)
Also I have received many emails about ad-only sites like
Box-Of-Dollars. Please always check the TOS when signing up
for a new site. Now believe me I do NOT agree or understand
why some owners do not put such important information on the
front page, but please before spending time and money on a
site, go over their terms of services and also the help or
faq sections.
Hope you are all having a great week!
Best regards,
Shaun |
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Administrative Message #149 - Clickbux.org is banned |
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Clickbux.org is banned.
Please do NOT submit any ads for clickbux.
Your ad will NOT be processed.
Best regards,
Shaun |
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Administrative Message #151 - Updates |
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Hello,
PTP feature has been stopped.
Please convert your credits by Sunday.
Also I am low on e-gold, if you have any extra and would
like to trade/sell, please contact me via yahoo im or admin@nocturnalemail.biz.
Best regards,
Shaun |
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Administrative Message #152 - Howlin-Mad-Cash is having
issues with the server |
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From Sondra Hicks:
Howlin-Mad-Cash is having issues with the server move.
I am hoping to have it cleared up in 24 to 48 hours at the
latest.
Thank you. |
After
all that you would think that the admin would have worked out your not a
cheat bot since you had to select a yes or no for each question. But
sadly the sense seems to of also slipped Shauns mind here too as you
then get this message.
Just checking to make sure you are a human and not a cheat bot.
Please click on the matching number to continue.
YES!
After message #152 and the useless number question we were able to get
on with what we had come here for. You could of guessed by now the ads
were a small reward after going through that and you would be right as
they screw you over by advertising all ads for $0.03 which they give you
on your first ad and then give you useless point and decimal
displacement. Our earnings from clicking 10 ads here should have been
$0.30 as they advertised $0.03 per ad but instead they gave us $0.0336
which was false advertising.
Evaluation
Our
investigator who dealt with this web site tells us it’s the worst site
he has ever reviewed in his life and wishes never to go back there. We
don’t blame him considering the magnitude of useless questions he had to
deal with before he could get on with his job. It seems that the admin
known as Shaun has a lot to learn about dealing with members and
providing a good service. The false advertising was just the icing on
the cake which gives this web site one of the lowest rating of -9 for
terrible service and false advertising.
