Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Adsoncraigs.com SCAM - This website is currently unavailable.

I recently submitted a request to have a refund for this program...I am awaiting a response! This is what I said in the email to Plimus.....
" The owner illegally sold copies to customers through this company and now can get away with it if you allow it. Even though that Plimus is the payment processor; I
dont think doing a chargeback would help much because of this being major scam. I think in most cases the owner will be punished for his wrongdoings but now I believe this actually lies within the company Plimus now and I would like a review of my account and the owner of the software and no do not send an email to this person.. This person will not respond ever to an email so please do not waste time trying to reach the owner. The only way that me and nearly 40,000 others who were scammed by this person will get justice is by immediately creating a chargeback for all the customers before this gets out of hand. Though this will only help some, it will eventually make some people temporarily happy. The owner of the software broke the contract with Plimus and many other plimus vendor rules and regulations. This guy sold illegal copies and his sole gain should be reversed in the hands of people who were ultimately spending money with a vendor of Plimus. I think this will be a
matter that Plimus will eventually have to take on due the nature that this may turn out to be costing the owner nearly 3 or 4 millions lost revenue if he just had chargebacks on his account. I would like to be refunded my money and Ive already
talked to a representative there that re-opened my refund request but failed to tell me that she would just email the owner and not follow-up. This is not acceptable as
the owner is unresponsive, he is trying to escape - he shut down his website..This draws a huge suspicion and Plimus needs to investigate if they are not already before this falls solely into their hands. Its not good when people blame the
company that was housing these scamming individuals as if they were apart of the scandals. Its really unfair but as of today, CL AUTO POSTER by Adsoncraigs.com is not working and will not ever into the future. I CLEARLY WOULD LIKE MY REFUND BACK!!"

I will keep you updated on this request! Keep in touch! If you would like to submit for your refund go here http://www.plimus.com/jsp/escalate/escalate_shopper_issue.jsp

Sunday, December 7, 2008

AdsOnCraigs Registration Issue & Programmer Drama!

We have switched programmers and the old programmer obviously doesn’t like that. Your license is indeed still valid. You must update to the latest version of the autoposter to fix the registration ID bug

ATTN: We have a new programmer. We will soon have a full released update with many improvements and an updated user interface. Any bogus posts concerning the old programmer situation will be deleted.

No truth whatsoever. The old programmer has always had control of the domain that the autoposter uses to validate registration ID’s. Since switching programmers, we expected him to be disgruntled. We are moving forward with a larger programming team and everyone will be very impressed with the newer version.

until our new version is released, we do not want our users to be forced to pay again to the programmer.

since he has control of the registration domain, he is trying to make money off of every client. this is unacceptable

we will have a new version this coming week

virus? why would you say that. it is not at all

MSE, thanks for bringing this up. I was about to open a thread about this. AdsOnCraigs IS the owner of the software. Unfortunately, we gave too much control to the lead programmer. We switched programmers and the lead programmer(Yury) obviously does not like to be let go. The “patch” that modified the hosts file was a temporary fix just until we released an update to the autoposter from our new programmers. The new update is not a patch that modifies any host file and will simply update your autoposter and fix all the invalid registration ID issues:

[update url removed]


Yury, who is obviously out of work now, is trying to simply scam previous customers into re-purchasing the software through him. This is nothing but a scam and its unfortunate that we allowed him so much access to our customers, including customer emails. He has since updated the original registration ID server to disable all registration ID’s that were sold while he was our programmer. Unfortunately we do not have control of the original registration ID server but we have a new registration ID server and the new update(released yesterday) will fix all issues.

To sum up, we greatly apologize to all our customers who have been affected by this highschool drama. AdsOnCraigs(our 6 employees) looks forward to the future and are proud of the new programming team that is now in place and working hard on updating the autoposter with even more features.

Response from a user:

Admin - How are we to believe you when right across the software is in big type - ATTENTION! Adsoncraigs.com is SCAM now: read here

I swear my norton internet security claimed the update file was a high risk security threat and removed it, i downloaded it from this site adsoncraigs.com/update.exe and after failing to install because it wanted to modify the hosts file which is blocked from ebing modified shortly after my antivirus kicked in and tol me to remove the security risk

or stop the whole thing all together until u got ur new version out, rather than letting people continue to download his spammy cracked virus infected stuff.

Upon opening the application you will see:



Clicking the “Read Here” link displays the following which is also quoted below:



Adsoncraigs.com sold pirate registration ids and it’s SCAM now.
Let me describe the situation: Derek Boris (adsoncraigs.com’s owner) doesn’t own the program he sold (I own it), he only distributed it. Your copy was sold illegally through him (you got the registration id already sold to another person), if you get invalid registration id warning.
You should request refund. You can find link for this in your payment confirmation, which can be found here http://www.plimus.com/jsp/find_shopper_order.jsp

Adsoncraigs.com can’t sell legal copies of this program anymore. There is cracked version on the site now, as well as update (http://www.adsoncraigs.com/update.exe) it sends now to everyone. This update creates fake domain to cheat the program: It adds

74.52.120.98 www.yuskis.info

to ‘ C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts’

You need to type “C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts” in notepad file open window, press open and delete this string “74.52.120.98 www.yuskis.info” to disable this crack.

As Derek hasn’t program’s sources, the program won’t be updating and his cracked version will be unworkable soon.

This is against Plimus.com policy and you can request refund in your payment confirmation as you bought it with Plimus.com

Yury,
the program’s owner and developer,
cap.sale@gmail.com

I originally bought this application from cap.sale@gmail.com (Yury) from scriptlance before adsoncraigs.com was around. It is my understanding that the russian programmer has been using the guy at adsoncraigs as a proxy to accept US payments. Only they know for sure but clearly neither of them is being honest.