You might be wondering why I’ve chosen to use such a strange title for today’s article but this article is intended for ClickBank Merchants who do not want to have their downloadable products stolen. How can this happen ? It’s very simple. All a potential hacker has to do is go to Google and search for “A Charge From Clickbank Or Clkbank” and they will see a number of order confirmation pages complete with downloadable products.
The problem isn’t Google’s search engine spiders nor is it with ClickBanks setup. The actual problem lies with ClickBank Merchants using the Alexa Toolbar or the Google Toolbar when they are testing their sales confirmation pages. The problem can also arise from legitimate purhasers using either of these toolbars when they confirm the purchase of a product. ClickBank requires merchants to show the text ‘you will see a charge from clickbank on your bank statement’ on your confirmation page to let the purchaser know the charge on their credit card is valid. This also means all a hacker has to do to steal your hard work is search for that specific phrase on Alexa or Google. While many advanced ClickBank vendors protect their confirmation/download page with a login or choose to send the product via email, many merchants are still leaving themselves open to the simplest theft.
In order for a merchant to protect himself/herself from this basic hack, all that would need to be done it create an image with the text ‘you will see a charge from clickbank on your bank statement’ instead of using plain text. You can also add ‘NO FOLLOW, NO INDEX’ META tag to all of your confirmation/download pages.
Hopefully this information will be helpful to any novice ClickBank Merchants, although a few hackers might hate me for spilling the beans.
Happy Publishing,
Dave
Thanks for useful information. Andrew.
Please cancell charge of 49.95 from my Via card as i feel I was scammed.
Please cancel the charge of 49.95 from my visa card as I recieved a pop up telling me that I was scammed. I have notified my aarp visa regarding this problem.
Thanking you in advance,
Eileen Carracher
@Eileen Carracher - No offense, but there’s nothing for sale here so I’m not quite sure why you’ve double posted. This post is providing information on how merchants can prevent theft of their downloadable products. I do have advertisments here on this site and I checked my Clickbank, Pepperjam and NeverblueAds accounts (which I receive a commission based on a sale) and there were no purchases for $49.95 on record. Other than that we have Google Adsense ads running here and I have no control over what you will get when you click on one of those ads. Google explicitly forbids any of us publishers from clicking on ads on our own sites so as webmasters we’re defenseless to protect our visitors from anything that might happen when somebody clicks on one of those ads. Those are Google’s policies, so if you were scammed as a result of a Google Adsense ad, you will have to take it up with Google.
I take any implications seriously and while I humbly suggest you get your facts straight before you go shouting you were scammed on my site, I have no problem helping you out if you were truly scammed (especially if you are a retired person) but you will have to be more specific about your problem.
For example, exactly what product did you purchase? When and where was the purchase made?
A pop up saia I was scammed as you already know. The site was limewire.the charge was $49.95 on my visa card. The pop up also said this site is free and I am a senior but I am not totally inept.I have in no way
scorned or made accusations about your site. I simply want to resolve a situation.
Thank you,
Eileen Carracher
I have nothing to do with Limewire and I can 100% assure you that you did not receive a popup from my site.
You most likely have spyware installed on your computer, possibly from some shareware or file-sharing application has been downloaded or installed on your computer. Perhaps your children or grandchildren were on your computer and downloaded a filesharing app to download movies or music?
I humbly suggest that you scan your computer for spyware and remove anything that your computer might be infected with. Also, never, ever, ever put your credit card number into any window that just pops up on you.
Furthermore, you might try using Firefox browser which blocks any popups. If you’re using AOL or Microsoft browsers, you’re at a significant risk of having viruses and spyware popup windows on you.
As far as your credit card charge, all you have to do is call your credit card company and dispute the charge. Tell them exactly what happened and unless they’re HSBC or some other predatory lender, you should be refunded your money.
Also, Limewire’s site is http://www.limewire.com
I can assure you that there are no popups or scams going on here. This is an affiliat emarketing blog and we do not sell anything except advertising and we only accept Paypal. No direct credit card processing.
Good Luck.