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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's unquestionably despicable, but it may not be illegal, if they are saying "pay us $50 and we'll tell you where to get free books". You pay them the $50 and they say "you can get them from feedbooks". The $50 is for the information, not the books.
That's the way that a lot of these scams work.
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They are actually bringing users to the Feedbooks site, with just a banner on top that says "MyPadMedia". And they are getting people to sign up by claiming to offer the "Twilight" series in their testimonials, and in the probably fake reviews around the web there's claims of having downloaded "Harry Potter". So it's not like there's a link "go here", they are making it appear as though Feedbooks is part of MyPadMedia.
So whether it's illegal or despicable, it's definitely wrong. And now that Feedbooks knows about it, at least it's being blocked...and according to Hadrien at Feedbooks, the hope is that the payment company (clickbank) will reimburse anyone who purchased a membership. From Feedbooks logs and the member number Judie was assigned, we think it was roughly 250ish people.
Glad we found them out...but isn't the whole story just bizarre?
-Carly Z from Gear Diary