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I just got eight $2 sales - it usually takes a week to get that much. So is BS the latest target of the fraudsters, is it just a freak day or has a buyer driven out of iS turned up to boost the sales? They came in two separate groups of dls, but all for the same price.

no worries, you'll find them just as I have now, minus 6$ representing "adjustments".

I don't know when they reacted to the fraud or whatever it was. I'm not paying much attention, BS is a very poor earner for me. But I am using picNiche plugin and I saw I exceeded the payout limit, wanted to withdraw and found out that I can't do it, since I have 6 bucks ummm... adjusted

I had an adjustment yesterday. Today is showing over 30$ which is almost unheard of for me at BS but no adjustmants so far. Whether they pay us or not doesn't change the fact that somebody has downloaded our images.

I know, which is why we need to flag it up as soon as possible if there is something fishy.

If that was the case then wouldn't all have been downloads at the hightest size possible.

They've just cancelled four of mine as "invalid transactions". I expect the rest will follow shortly.

We are rowing the same boat lmao.

They got me too. The last two days I've had about 100 images downloaded that I would have made about $130 on. I did contact support and heard that they are aware of it and they have implemented and will be implementing new measures today to stop this.  It's most likely the same group that stung Istock.

Hi guys,

We'll follow up with additional info, but as was mentioned earlier in the thread, we're aware of this and addressing it.  We have a large number of existing controls and procedures and we're adding to them. The team has been online and working.   

Pixart - I'm not 100% sure what you're seeing, but we can look into it.  Please reach out directly to the support email address and they'll look into anything that you can't explain.

http://www.bigstockphoto.com/contactus.html

Thanks,

Scott
Bigstock

LOL . . .  you are right, it is kind of insulting when no body wants to steal your stuff.  I feel left out some how.

Thanks for your understanding.   It takes a little time to investigate and make the various adjustments we have to make, which is why communication can sometimes lag behind the events themselves.  In other words, we make a first priority of aggressively addressing any issue, and once we know more, we can then stop and communicate to the larger group.

Of course, there are plenty of lightning-fast forum participants around here. 

We do appreciate your patience in the meanwhile.   Thanks!

Best,
Scott

I really appreciate the communication as well, but if this was a credit card issue, then I really don't understand why there is no automatic check in place to stop suspicious activity. There seems to be several easy identifiable criteria that a site could check:

1. New account (or account that has not had confirmed buying activity in the past)
2. # of downloads in a given period of time
3. Length of time between downloads
4. Downloads outside "normal working hours" of given country
etc..

It seems easy to write an algorithm that check one or more of these crtieria and suspend suspicious activity. I mean c'mon I had about 100, another poster had about 100, and alot more.. When does that happen legitimately?.....like never.  If they're suspicious, lock them down after like 25 downloads