Question about duplicate IPs

[Machewman]

Hey,

Basically, I want to get greens quickly, but I am also willing to pay for them.
I know that having multiple addresses under the same IP as your referrals is classed as fraud, but I was wondering: if I signed them all up under the same IP but completed the £5/£10 offers (rather than say Lovefilm), would this still constitute fraud?

I've searched around, but I haven't really found an answer to this question. I just thought it might work, seeing as I AM giving genuine business to these sites.

Thanks in advance.

[chigley]

Straight answer: yes.

[the_saint]

Originally Posted by Machewman

Basically, I want to get greens quickly, but I am also willing to pay for them.
I know that having multiple addresses under the same IP as your referrals is classed as fraud, but I was wondering: if I signed them all up under the same IP but completed the £5/£10 offers (rather than say Lovefilm), would this still constitute fraud?

Of course, why wouldn't it?

[Machewman]

Really? That's too bad

I only thought it would work because I would be paying for each referral, so if, for example, I needed 5 referrals, I would pay £5x5=£25. So, the sites would still be getting their money.

[the_saint]

Originally Posted by Machewman

Really? That's too bad

I only thought it would work because I would be paying for each referral, so if, for example, I needed 5 referrals, I would pay £5x5=£25. So, the sites would still be getting their money.

they only ge paid if it is a new genuine customer

[Machewman]

Ah, ok. I see.

Thanks for all the replies, you've cleared this up for me. Guess I'll have to try my luck with the trading forum

[elmatador]

On this topic, if a different PC is used to sign up on a wireless network in the same house as the original sign up PC will it recognise the IP address as the same and therefore put the referral on hold? Thanks

[claire80]

Originally Posted by Machewman

Ah, ok. I see.

Thanks for all the replies, you've cleared this up for me. Guess I'll have to try my luck with the trading forum

if you want to complete offers for yourself you might be better doing one of the points based sites ie points.freebiejeebies , pointsrewards, points.kudos etc

Originally Posted by elmatador

On this topic, if a different PC is used to sign up on a wireless network in the same house as the original sign up PC will it recognise the IP address as the same and therefore put the referral on hold? Thanks

yes it will be the same and yes it is 99 % certain to both go on hold

[elmatador]

Thought as much thanks for the quick response! Just got to wait 4 days before I can get on the trades section now!!!

[sonkaldebi]

Hello,

I am new and have just read this. How is this going to afect me as all the people i have got to sign up have signed up from work. As we have over 100 computers behind the same IP address?

Any help would be great

Cheers

Ste

[Praj07]

Originally Posted by sonkaldebi

Hello,

I am new and have just read this. How is this going to afect me as all the people i have got to sign up have signed up from work. As we have over 100 computers behind the same IP address?

Any help would be great

Cheers

Ste

Not looking good mate, what network is this on? Ideally you should send in a support ticket before you carry on getting referrals.

[sonkaldebi]

its on ri i have managed to get 5 people to sign up to love film as well

[stubbs]

100 people on the same ip address? really? at my work i think each block of 5 has the same ip address. and some people have individual ones, i know because we do remote pc access.

[sonkaldebi]

yeh so do we, but we have a static ip for the main server whitch is also our terminal server for remote connections.

[Praj07]

Originally Posted by sonkaldebi

its on ri i have managed to get 5 people to sign up to love film as well

Send in a support ticket and ask Ash (the owner of RI who is a member on here) if it's still ok for you to carry on getting referrals

Good luck mate, let us know how you get on

[Zleet]

Would there be any chance of a next door neighbour having the same IP address?

I ask because it's almost certain I could get him to do an offer but I remember having issues with rapidshare a while back claiming my IP had reached download limits all the time. Not necessarily anything to do with my neighbour but something to do with BT's handling of IP's.

[the_saint]

Originally Posted by Zleet

Would there be any chance of a next door neighbour having the same IP address?

Only if he shared the same internet connection as you (or was mooching off your Wi-Fi!)