They had a shitload of sites, DaPimp, most of them based on well-known magazines that they published.
They ran HighSociety.com, which is one I remember..and a lot of people sent them traffic since they did have webmaster programs. The sites I remember are now gone, of course. They also bought keywords and banners on Yahoo and probably other se's as well. Yahoo probably made millions on them. I can remember writing to Yahoo about it back then and just getting blown off.
I first remember seeing some of their sites in 1998, meaning that they were probably online before that. . The sites were always surfer-traps. They claimed that they wouldn't charge a credit card, then the moment you went past a certain page, zap!
When technology advanced so did their scams, from what I'm reading here: disabling back buttons, etc.
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