A few days ago, while dropping Entrecards on other Entrecard member websites, a post titled “EntreCard members get scammed by these members!” on Cornymans Money-Blog grabbed my curiousity and interest. The post talked about ghost dropping and even exposed those Entrecard members who were suspected of ghost dropping.
Afterwards, I started a forum thread at CMF Ads asking if there was any truth about this issue and the early responses that the thread received said that it was.
True? Yes. Back when I was with EC I performed a similar test for them. I kept the results secret at their request. When there is an incentive to script drops, there will always be cheaters. When I removed my Entrecard widget, I got drops for months from some of those quick drop sites. Pure fraud. – Turnip
Cheating isn’t really new in Entrecard. In fact, this particular issue made me remember a post I wrote almost a year ago about the same issue. In that particular post titled “Extreme Dropping of Extreme Gaming” a site named Extreme Dropping was displaying Entrecard widgets by other Entrecard members on single pages hosted on their own site not on the Entrecard member site. Of course, this practice was not allowed by Entrecard and Extreme Dropping was later shutdown.
That same post also exposed another cheating method where 9 Entrecard member widgets were placed on a single page allowing for quick dropping. Those pages were also immediately taken down after being reported to Entrecard.
Almost a year ago, those cheating methods failed. If cheaters can find ways of cheating the system then those who are not cheating will almost always catch up to them. Someone out there will eventually notice the cheat and expose it. Resulting to bad blood between those accused of cheating and the person exposing the cheat.
Fortunately, thanks to the author of Cornymans Money-Blog, Entrecard was able to get hold of the issue and immediately resolve the problem. According to Entrecard, in their latest blog post, “If anyone was using a “ghost dropper” script, it should no longer work.”
As for those suspected of cheating by ghost dropping, I guess they’ll remain innocent since they were never really proven guilty of anything except maybe being caught right in the middle of it. LOL!
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