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I'm almost certain that if anyone has the answer to this question they wouldn't reveal it here, but I guess I can risk 10 minutes of my time to ask. That being:

Most affiliate offers pay rates and/or acceptance is dependent on the geo location of the end user installing. Any way to manipulate it so that their system thinks the end user is from a high paying location like the US instead of India, Uzbesjkhgttaan or wherever? Most use MaxMind for the geo lookup, so in reality, my question is there a way to fool Maxmind's system? If it's even possible, I'm pretty sure that some type of custom software must be installed on the end users machine prior to the affiliate action. Either when the end user arrives at your site or during the actual software install process itself (if you are doing a pay-per-install).

I've played around with a few things, but haven't discovered anything viable. Just curious if anyone else has looked into this. Uhh, hypothetically of course. Feel free to PM me if you'd like. We have a rather large distribution network and are always willing to pay or rev-share on revenue generating solutions.
 


Yes, it's completely possible. However, it's hard to do. You would have to funnel them through a series of proxy networks located in the US, as faking the system on YOUR server side is damn near impossible.

My 2 cents. :)
 
If there's something like that I could make millions from making cheap Indians sign up CPA forms for me :D
 
This is fraud and can bring you more trouble than just being banned by the affiliate, also it's very hard to implement this as you need lots of different elite US proxies.
If you would have those proxies I dunno why would you need the users as you can write a bot to simulate the user action.
Anyway it will not work for long time as the affiliate will figure out and probable you won't get paid.
 
People such as Jeff should not be accepted here. There is a huge difference between getting traffic/clients however, and getting fake traffic/clients. It is because of fraud that payouts to affiliates are so slow sometimes.
 
What's that saying?

Never bite the hand that feeds you?

But why not see what good can come from this; how could you use the idea of cheap labour and proxies to trick/bait genuine traffic into clicking on links respective to their own location?

I don't know, maybe I am talking bollocks (i am), but it would be nice to see something positive develop from any negative threads appearing.
 
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