Traffscale started cooperation with an advertiser called Hot Aff in June 2025. Test cap was launched for the Chilistake IT FB offer. In early July the first conversion report was received, but the payment has been postponed until August 14th. It has been treated as a minor issue at the start. Delays are day-to-day routine in affiliate marketing. Therefore both parties decided to continue business relations. Moreover, the advertiser offered appealing terms, demonstrated willingness to scale up traffic volumes and, most importantly, introduced NET30 payment terms.
We agreed to affiliate for five different GEOs (IT, FR, PL, UK, DE) with a cap of 50 conversions for each. We also discussed the possibility of using “crash” approach and the advertiser representative explicitly approved it. Based on the terms we agreed on, we launched the offer.
The August conversion report was received in early September. Due to an error of the advertiser’s manager FTDs were miscalculated on a lower rate than agreed earlier. After our follow-up, the report was corrected, confirming a payable amount of €3,950. We provided a wallet for the mentioned transaction and asked for a confirmation of an expected payment date. The advertiser confirmed thet the payment date will be between 10th and 15th of September, which perfectly complied with the NET30 terms we discussed at the beginning of our cooperation.
After that, we were informed that we are welcomed to carry on running on Italy with a total cap of 60 FTDs. Traffscale passed on the offers to its web sources.
As we approached to the August conversion payment deadline, a series of delays began. On September 18th an August payment inquiry was made. The advertiser manager, @AnnyHotaff, ensured us that payment would be made within a couple of days. However, no funds were received - not after two days, five days, or even ten. Instead, the advertiser started steaming promises: “tomorrow”, “on Tuesday”, “we will shortly provide a payment hash”, “expect the update” etc. No payment was ever sent.
“Tomorrow”, “Tuesday”, “expect a payment hash” – that’s a standard scam response from the gangs that are not even considering paying for the services provided. Hot Aff kept receiving traffic from Traffscale, increasing their outstanding debt.
By October 4th, payment was still not received. It is due to pay for September traffic which was over 60 FTDs. Publishers became concerned, as did Traffscale team. Hot Aff had already violated NET30 terms and did not seem to have any issues with it.
At this stage, another representative, @hotaff_com, joined our conversation. He claimed that their CFO is travelling and payment will be closed as he returns. Once again, nothing was paid.
The next delay tactic was a proposition of a phone call with advertiser COO, @filipchili, apparently to discuss further cooperation. Keeping in mind the delays of reporting and billing as well as vividly contemptuous approach to the agreements, the necessity of having this phone call was questionable. Still, hoping to solve the conflict, the call proposal has been accepted - with a condition that a translator would be provided by the advertiser, which they confirmed.
Despite this, the call started without a promised translator and almost right away ended with a proposition from @filipchili to continue the negotiation via Telegram. This clearly was a consecutive attempt to drag out time but Traffscale was dedicated to resolve the situation and, most importantly, get paid.