Actually that is exactly what I did for years with a whole bunch of dubious "affiliate programs" I fully expected to rip each other off thereby. Blew my mind that in all those years none of them ever did. Were they just too dense? Or just raking in so much money (it was the heyday of the "its raining hits money is free just put up a site" era) that not one of their employees bothered? Hmmm.

Just seemed easier way to test them than to give each a different password that would prevent them being able to show their true colours.

Of course any of them that actually earned me real money I changed that password and email pretty quick. Oh and I used a different email alias per each one of them of course too to know which one had given the address to spammers or used it to spam.

-MarkM-