My colleague just pointed these 3 sites out to me that are advertising with Adwords http://www.soalrenergye.com/ http://solarncaskss.com/ http://www.madesolarhome.com/ All are direct Paypal payments to a 'hihitv@gmail.com' and not through CB. Can't really see these as being E4E sanctioned sites. But I could be wrong.
I believe this could be people from china. The chinese have exact clones of everything from twitter, facebook. You name it, its there without any legal trouble for the developers.
They even have the "page protected by copyscape - Do not Copy" logo at the bottom of the page! Crazy....
The whois information on those domains comes back to people from the US. Two of the domains are registered the same person. The sites are slightly different then the E4E original site. They could be run by E4E but I don't know?
Shouldn't be too much trouble to get a take down as server hosted @ Xlhost.com and registrar is WorldNic.com. Interesting collection of sites (1215) sitting on their server 209.51.196.254
That means the website owner will get 100% commission by using the services of paypal. Its really a big blow to E4E team.
Add 2 more sites to the list www.solarpower-solarenergy.com www.solarenergy-solarenergy.com all run by the same guy. Anyone know how to get incontact with E4E
Yeah send him a PM. seem there is yet ANOTHER site "solar1978.com" man, we have a world class hacker and dickhead on the lose ) edit : ooh and yet another one "http://www.diysolarpaneles.com/" however this one is sloppy has a diffrent email account but links back to solar1978.com in the html page
Can add a few more sites to this now http://www.tinepasolardiy.com/ http://www.slmahomesolar.com/ http://solar4523.com/ http://powermobilestick.com/ http://installsolarpansdw.com http://www.EmaiSoalr.com http://www.tinepasolardiy.com solarenergybuild.com www.solarpowerbuild.com I noticed the top 3 sites in the OP have been deleted. man these guys are a machine!
Another another 4 new domains today solarenergybuild.com www.solarpanelssz.com nowaesolardiy.com greeaddiypowers.com
I have not really seen people openly copying whole of such websites before without any fear & even advertising them on Adwords. I think this is something serious that has to be dealt with strictly in order to discourage other future wannabe copycats. As getjimmy said, this can occur to all the digital products. Even though I'm not personally making sales for E4E now, but I'd still be interested in hearing something from lord swerd
yep..sent Swerd a PM 2 days ago, nothing heard back. If this is left unchecked then any vendor with a popular product could be the next target. This current campaign is well put together, using free AW vouchers & throwaway domains. Contacting Google would be useless IMO, as they're basically retards (IMO ) that take months to investigate fraud, if ever, (but only days to penalise legitimate advertisers) so best bet would be to either freeze their PayPal account or take down their hosting or domain registration. Or all 3 preferably.
Hard to belive but yet another new site just popped up http://viednsolarpannel.com/ These guys would be killing everyone on the Search network as there ads are also shown worldwide as well.
I noticed the last reply was like three years ago but the site is still available! Does anybody know if google or some authority has taken action on them? I really feel sorry for E4E because I'm a vendor in health product niche myself.
Thanks for posting this thread. I have been battling "hihtv" for a bit over a year now... Looks like a few more DMCA's are to be sent out. They just keep starting new sites, they will run out of hosts eventually! thanks, Drew
What proof does paypal need to close down their accounts? What kind of response have you got from paypal?