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Widgetbucks is a BIG SCAM

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

I smell SCAM, my account IS SUSPENDED FOR NO FREAKEN VALID REASON! .. ITS ALL A BIG SCAM!! and yah they try to run away rather to solve peeps problems... Widgetbucks scam my $1000, that's a two and a half months earning (June, July and August 2009). I don't receive any email regarding the suspension of my account, they like to SCAM MORE. Lucky me, I always check my account twice or trice a month.

I've been with them for almost 2 years and they lost a good publisher. Here's a reply from Craig Simmons of Widgetbucks Support Center when I tried to reinstate my account.

Your account has been suspended for suspected click fraud while we investigate the activity. An email was deployed, but might be caught up in your spam/junk filters.

Please let me know if you have any additional information that might help explain the high click through rates.

Thanks,
WB Support Team

I send them my traffic stat and stated that I'm using geo targeting (I'm sending, US, CA,UK, AU traffic). After 5 hours, I received a reply from Widgetbucks.

Our traffic quality team has investigated your account and found abnormal clicking patterns that are not consistent with normal traffic patterns, especially for your sites focus. As a result of these findings, we are forced to conclude that this was fraudulent traffic which merits indefinite expulsion from our network. We will not be able to reinstate your account.
WB Support Team

I guess they did not even study or look at my traffic stat/site. I have an increase of traffic for almost 40% on mid of June, I'm running a kids/teen site, it's normal to get a higher ctr on this kind of site.

BEWARE of WIDGETBUCKS or MPIRE CORPORATION. ITS A BIG SCAM!! PEEPS DONT WASTE YOUR TIME IN THIS! I SHOULD LISTEN TO DIGITALPOINT PEEPS WHO ARE ALSO SUSPENDED FOR THE SAME REASON. YOU MIGHT BE EARNING TODAY, BUT HOW ABOUT THE FUTURE?

Tags: Craig Simmons, mpire, mpire corporation, scam, widgetbucks, widgetbucks scam, widgetbucks sucks
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WTF: PLDT DSL Block Port 25!!!

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

If you are not familiar with Port 25, Port 25 is the virtual pathway that most e-mail use to route the outgoing message to a local server. If this port is block most probably you will not able to send any email coming from your email client such as outlook express unless your ISP provide a new smtp and port # to use.

Now back to the topic, just recently I noticed that I can no longer send email via OE with the use of my registered domain so I was thinking that the problem is on my hosting. I emailed the tech support several times but they keep on saying that there's no problem on their side so I stop. though the tech support is very helpful and suggested to test if my ISP is blocking the port 25.

This is the error message that I'm receiving when sending email using my Outlook Express.

The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'mail.testdomain.com',
Server: 'mail.testdomain.com', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No,
Socket Error: 10051, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E

I had several testing(disabling my av, turn-off my firewall, using telnet) and found out that the "SALARIN" is my ISP. Jologs talaga!!! Those %#$! did not even notify us customers before blocking the port.

So here's what I got to resolve the issue... Don't bother to call PLDT, just update your current setting with the following information below.

Outgoing mail server SMTP: smtpdsl4.pldtdsl.net

My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication: Uncheck it

USE Port: 587

Hope this helps ^______^

Tags: dial dsl, outgoing mail block, outgoing server, outlook express, pldt dsl, Pldt sucks, port 25
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