Arbitrage: "Fake Traffic" For Affiliate Program?

I have a product that is yielding a positive ROI for every signup (ie. product cost $10/month, and they pay me $80 per signup). Now... I am assuming they have it positioned this way as their expected customer life cycle is over 8 months, yielding them profit; that being said, you get paid after they're a customer for 1 month.

So the arbitrage: have 10 of my friends signup for this each month, and after month 1 they cancel, yielding $720/month.

A few kickers: I want to have fake traffic so it doesn't show that my link has 10 clicks with 10 signups & with different IP's used for every signup it will hopefully look somewhat authentic.

Is there anything else I should be weary of? How can I make this sustainable? I was thinking after the first round of signups, I'll have a few plans run longer so it's not every signup cancelling after the 1st month.

If they pay u $80 per sign up why don't u bring legit traffic , that way u won't risk being banned..

I bet you will be kicked off sooner than in 14 days!!!! Change my mind!

ran3000 said:

If they pay u $80 per sign up why don't u bring legit traffic , that way u won't risk being banned..

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That's the long term plan, just don't have any direct organic sources yet.

Are they paying $80 per sign up for a product that costs $10? Are you sure this is not something shady?

zanderzero said:

That's the long term plan, just don't have any direct organic sources yet.

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Just think about it like this, if the advertiser that's paying is not making profits he won't pay u or they will but after days u will see the money paid reversed and u will get banned

Pixel Fund said:

I bet you will be kicked off sooner than in 14 days!!!! Change my mind!

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Lol only time will tell.

Iuzzu said:

Are they paying $80 per sign up for a product that costs $10? Are you sure this is not something shady?

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Yep it's 100% legit from a reputable company. note: it's $10/month, so I assume they're expecting the customer life value to be a while.

zanderzero said:

So the arbitrage: have 10 of my friends signup for this each month, and after month 1 they cancel, yielding $720/month.

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Sure but what do your friends get out of the deal?

My friends would want 1/2 of my earnings or turn me in themselves