Comments by "oneoflokis" (@oneoflokis) on "Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam" video.
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I found this video by accident this morning, and was genuinely shocked by it!
I don't know WHY anyone is allowed to get away with this any more: especially a large respected company like Paypal. Unless they are allowed to get away with it, BECAUSE it is owned by PayPal! In which case, Peter Thiele is a bigger crook than I thought he was! 😏
I really haven't seen any ads for Honey sponsorships on Youtube, probably because I don't watch the right computer type channels.
But I have heard of the Honey browser extension. I even downloaded it once: but found it doesn't work particularly well in the UK, imo. There are other cashback/discount sites we use over here.
I will go on a bit longer though, as to why I am SURPRISED that the US government in particular allows this! (You have a lousy government and consumer protection. 😏)
It is BECAUSE, this type of internet scam, involving affiliate link theft, is not at all a new scam .
Back in the day, so in the 2000s, I distinctly remember a news story about a fairly small player, *being caught out. For just this type of thing! *
He was a software developer: and he put out some free programs (don't think they were even apps in those days) that were to do with geography I think. Maps and stuff like this. And people could download these maps or widgets for free.
But what they didn't know, was that these things contained malware, which sat on their computer, and each time an affiliate link was clicked on that computer, the malware changed it to an affiliate link belonging to this guy! He made millions off unsuspecting consumers doing that!
Well: in the end, some US Government department caught up with him, and he had to pay a fine. Didn’t go to prison; and didn't have to pay anyone any compensation, afaik. But it was seen as malware/fraud. And this was decades ago!
So why aren't the US Government prosecuting Honey for fraud? They've prosecuted others before for the same thing..
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