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| - SanCash came to light in late 2007 as the sponsor behind some of the most rampant spam runs on the Internet promoting "Elite Herbal" and (later) "VPXL / Express Herbal." This is the product analyzed by the BBC's Simon Cox as part of an investigative report; the tablets he had analyzed contained no active ingredients. (Since there is no product known to increase penis size in males who have reached sexual maturity, it hardly matters.) SanCash was believed for many years to be directly related to the GenBucks organization, a sister company which also engages in the promotion of what could best be described as questionable products, usually herbal remedies of one sort or another. This was confirmed by several legal investigations in October 2008. As of this writing (Oct. 2008,) SanCash's affiliate portal's location (sancash.com) has been shut down, as has their replacement portal, affking.com. They shut down their main domain (sancash.com) in mid-December 2007 following a raid on several properties in Christchurch, New Zealand scoop.co.nz: Anti-spam raid in Christchurch, Dec. 19, 2007. This followed Simon Cox's report on his radio show "The Investigation." bbc.co.uk: Super scam me, Dec. 13, 2007. The Affking affiliate program was created mere days after the BBC report went to air. In October 2008, SanCash was further tied in with GenBucks in an action by the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs: The Department says that Shane Atkinson was co-manager of the Genbucks Affiliate Programme; Lance Atkinson, trading under the name of Sancash, recruited and paid spammers to market Genbucks products, adult sex toys and replica watches; Roland Smits registered the internet domain names used in the Sancash spam emails and created the alternative subject lines used to avoid interception by internet service providers' spam filtering software. The Department of Internal Affairs has asked the High Court to impose financial penalties of $200,000 (NZD) on each of three New Zealanders involved in a major international spamming operation. These include the co-managers of SanCash and GenBucks, Shane and Lance Atkinson. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) also released a press statement regarding similar US-based investigations into SanCash and GenBucks, and also ordered their assets frozen [ source ]. Each of these legal actions made specific mention of the manufacturer and distributor of these bogus products: Tulip Lab, located in Mumbai, India. The FTC investigation also concluded that their alleged "herbal products" (VPXL, Elite Herbal, Manster, ManXL, etc. etc.) were dangerous to consumers, and that virtually every claim on all sites spammed on behalf of SanCash / GenBucks featured no truthful statements.
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