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Old 07-06-2009, 05:00 AM  
Sarah_Jayne
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The gist of this sort of chat traffic is that they have 'chatters' out there pretending to be women or cam girls. They chat up men but tell them either they will send them nude pictures or get naked on camera (that sort of thing anyway) in exchange for them signing up for a site and giving them the confirmation code. They usually tell them that they can then cancel it right away. So, on the one end you have somebody having people signing up with the purpose of cancelling right away and getting them the free trial signup money. Which is why, many affiliate programs now bar chat traffic in their terms and conditions. Then, it is often fraud to the surfer too because there is no 'woman' and after they have joined the person they were chatting to vanishes and gives them nothing in return.
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