Today, Yellow Web shared a story about an alleged scam involving Keitaro — the service simply took away the referrals affiliates had brought in (which were generating over $2K per month) under the pretext of relaunching its referral program. What made the whole situation even more ridiculous was that Keitaro immediately invited the affiliates who had lost their referrals to start bringing in new users again: "We'd be happy to see you among our partners after the relaunch!"
This is very reminiscent of the LinkPay case. Here's a quick rundown of their track record (check out our breakdown):
- Transaction issues and incorrect charges;
- Bugs and a poorly functioning website;
- Hidden terms and conditions;
- Poorly trained customer support;
- And finally, aggressive promotion everywhere, claiming to be the best payment service of 2024, with a 3% fee and 2.9% cashback (which we believe was misleading).
Eventually, the guys suspended operations, but recently returned with an article. To sum it up, they claim that a banking outage in October was what prevented the service from operating properly.
However, that explanation smells like bullshit. It's pretty obvious that the bank wasn't responsible for the poorly functioning website, customer support issues, and everything else.
Of course, they couldn't just admit that LinkPay's product was completely underdeveloped and didn't even meet the most basic requirements. Choosing the wrong banking provider was only part of the problem. And judging by the article, a significant number of LinkPay's issues remain unresolved.
We believe almost every affiliate marketer has a couple of stories about getting scammed by service providers. Our job as a community is to speak openly about these cases, warn others, and prevent scammers from making even more money.

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