Weird Stats On Globalcom Network Bingo Sites? Robots, Scams Or Hacks?

DioBach · 18-03-08

Ok, a little bit of background. One of my sites has a page listing lots of Globalcom Bingo Skins. Now for a long time I couldn't be bothered actually getting around to affiliating with them all as in my experience they've never been great performers otherwise. However, at the start of this month I looked at some tracking and was amazed to see how many people were clicking through to the sites (they were just straight links to start with).

So I took a day to affiliate to all these sites I'd ignored up until then - just in case... The traffic through the page with all the links was pretty constant, and everyday there were very similar numbers of outbound clicks on the Globalcom sites in the list (more so than the other networks also listed on the page). With in a day all these sites had registrations showing on the stats (thank the lord for the new Globalcom interface!) but no money players.

Slowly the sites have all had money players, but, something really fishy is going on. I've checked about 10 of these Globalcom skins today and they roughly average out like this:

Registrations: 50 - 100
Cash Players: 1
Deposits: £5 - £10
Withdrawals: £30 - £150

Anyone seeing anything like this? I know it's not Globalcom that's in the fault here - I think there's something automated going on. I would never expect to see so many registrations to depositors on other sites. So far of all the sites I've checked today, none are in profit (which is why I never rushed to sign up all affiliate programmes till now).

My theory is something like this. Robots visit my page as it has a collection of sites under the Globalcom category, follows the link to the site and signs up. It plays the free pound of games then starts over. If one wins on the free pound, they deposit to get the money out. Rinse repeat. I could be wrong though...

Aspirin · 18-03-08

you should have a chat with Russ, he seems the Globalcom man, you have his MSN?

MooMoo · 18-03-08

WoW!.. thats pretty weired alright and slightly fishy. Just out of interest .. which sites do Globalcom have? so I can check to see if I promote any of them. Another thing is I came across a site the other day (forum).. and it appeared from reading the posts that there is a group of people who are doing just that.. scamming bingo sites and teaching each other how to do it !.. funnyily enough the last few posts mentioned things like "how do we do the 1 pound sites".. wish I had saved the site url casue could not find it again. But the folks (from their posts) were making a steady income from the freeplay money and seemed very proud of themselves for having pulled off the scams... I shall go try to find it again and post the URL here it may of of interest to site managers who may be dropping by this forum.... So it may be scammers rather than bots ?

DioBach · 18-03-08

No, I don't think I know Russ - Hang on, do you mean Joy Of Bingo Russ? Just looked through the rest of the sites I signed up to the start of the month and they're all showing the same sort of figures. To have a 100 sign-ups from a page with no content other than a text link and the name of the Network is pretty mad given the other metrics on the site.

I jsut spotted the same thing is happening at Loquax as well, although I've been signed up with them a lot longer and do promote them in a small way on another site.

DioBach · 18-03-08

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Originally Posted by MooMoo

WoW!.. thats pretty weired alright and slightly fishy. Just out of interest .. which sites do Globalcom have? so I can check to see if I promote any of them. Another thing is I came across a site the other day (forum).. and it appeared from reading the posts that there is a group of people who are doing just that.. scamming bingo sites and teaching each other how to do it !.. funnyily enough the last few posts mentioned things like "how do we do the 1 pound sites".. wish I had saved the site url casue could not find it again. But the folks (from their posts) were making a steady income from the freeplay money and seemed very proud of themselves for having pulled off the scams... I shall go try to find it again and post the URL here it may of of interest to site managers who may be dropping by this forum.... So it may be scammers rather than bots ?

That sounds about right - it wouldn't be that hard to do would it, fake IPs, a few prepaid cards etc...

loquax · 18-03-08

Sounds like scammers to me... more and more realise they can get free bingo cash, play a bit, and then withdraw.

Globalcom really do need to sort out their registration system - not sure if it's improved recently - but you do find things like username1, username2, username3.... username9999 playing all day.

Jason