The difference is it wasn't just one bad affiliate. All their referral income was generated by a bot I have seen many times before. It looks like they might be telling the truth about having advertised their link as well as there are a number of random hits on the link that didn't sign up accounts. The active ones all do a free roll one a few seconds after the other in the same order they signed up in and then play multiply BTC with the free winnings, not to win but to turnover as much referral income as they can.
If one of your affiliates turns into an abuser they would signup those accounts under their referral link, not yours. There is no reason they would abuse just to generate referral income for someone else.
You are 100% right, they would sign up under themselves and that is what we all think but that is what I am also afraid of as well, what if they don't one day?
Maybe they will realize that instead of making themselves money with affiliate like we all expect, they realize it is enough that they abuse the faucet and that is enough and they just end up signing under someone else and not just me, like lets say find 20-50 different people as well and sign up under all of them or even not sign up under anyone but go directly so that they won't make money from the affiliate but try to keep the money from the abuse.
I know there is less than 1% chance and I have been here for... 4 years? I am not entirely sure and never something bad happened but I am the type of guy who deletes all my info online once a week, you can never be enough scared of online peoples capabilities

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