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Bill and Melinda Gates’s daughter Phoebe has been caught in a major fraud scandal after internal company messages revealed that her startup was knowingly using a deceptive affiliate marketing tactic to claim commissions on sales it did not generate.

The scheme, known as “cookie stuffing,” has previously resulted in federal fraud prosecutions and prison sentences.

Corporate attorney Ariel Givner warns that the conduct is “typically treated as federal wire fraud in US courts.”

Givner confirms that Gates could face a “max penalty of up to 20 years’ prison + fines/restitution.”

The revelations are especially damaging because Gates has repeatedly tried to distance herself from her billionaire father’s wealth and influence, insisting that her company would succeed with “no ties to my privilege or my last name.”

That claim is now colliding with internal records showing that Gates and fellow co-founder Sophia Kianni were aware of the controversial practice for months.

Internal Slack Messages Expose What Was Happening

Gates, 23, co-founded Phia, a browser extension marketed as a “personal shopping assistant” designed to help users find better deals on fashion products.

Phia makes money when users buy products through affiliate links and the company receives a commission from retailers.

But Bloomberg found that Phia was claiming commissions even when its platform had not actually driven the sale.

The extension reportedly opened a background tab and automatically dropped its own tracking cookie when users made purchases, overriding legitimate referrals and allowing Phia to take credit for sales it did not generate.

Independent researcher and affiliate marketing expert Ben Edelman said the practice violated the most basic rule of affiliate marketing.

“The most fundamental requirement in affiliate marketing is that commission is only paid if a user clicks,” Edelman said.

“The rules don’t allow fake clicks, simulated clicks, imaginary clicks, or hypothetical clicks.

“Only a real click will do.”

The most damaging evidence came from Phia’s own internal Slack messages.

On December 18, Gates wrote:

“can u confirm auto pop for cookie drop is live on ALL sites w a coupon to confirm we are monetizing on all [gross merchandise volume.”

Kianni also pushed to keep the cookie-dropping system active after an engineer warned that it could violate compliance rules.

“Whatever we can do to keep these cookies dropping will be amazing thank you,” Kianni wrote.

Those messages blow apart the company’s attempt to dismiss the problem as a simple technical glitch.

Revenue Collapsed After the Scheme Was Shut Down

When Bloomberg first confronted Phia, the company blamed “technical anomalies” and said it fixed the problem within 24 hours.

“As soon as we were notified, our team worked overnight to identify, mitigate, and has since resolved the issue,” a spokesperson said.

But the company’s own revenue figures tell a far more damaging story.

According to Bloomberg, Phia’s average daily revenue plunged from around $80,000 to between $10,000 and $28,000 after the cookie-dropping feature was disabled.

Cookie stuffing reportedly accounted for an estimated 51 percent of all sales Phia claimed credit for in June.

That means more than half of the company’s credited sales were tied to the very practice now at the center of the fraud scandal.

Several affiliate partners have already cut ties with Phia.

Similar Scheme Previously Led to Federal Prison

There is already a clear legal precedent for this type of conduct.

In 2008, eBay sued affiliate marketer Shawn Hogan over a cookie stuffing scheme that allegedly defrauded the company of around $28 million in marketing fees.

Hogan was later convicted and sentenced to five months in federal prison.

Givner said the same type of conduct could expose Gates to far more serious penalties under federal wire fraud laws.

The irony is especially striking because eBay itself has financially backed Phia.

Independent marketplace journalist Liz Morton pointed out that eBay had previously worked with the FBI to build the case against Hogan.

“eBay is very familiar w/ the kind of cookie stuffing fraud Phia allegedly engaged in — in fact, it worked directly w/ FBI to build a case against Shawn Hogan for similar fraud 20 years ago,” Morton wrote.

Morton later argued that Etsy could also “have a case.”

‘No Ties to My Privilege’ Claim Takes a Hit

Gates has spent years presenting herself as an entrepreneur determined to succeed independently of her billionaire father.

But the fraud scandal surrounding Phia is now raising serious questions about whether the company’s growth was driven by legitimate innovation or by a system that quietly siphoned commissions from sales it did not earn.

In a statement to Bloomberg, Phia said:

“We will learn from this and want to ensure our users have the best possible shopping experience, with features like our new digital closet and more to come.”

The company has not explained why Gates was discussing the automatic cookie drop months before Bloomberg exposed it.

It has also not explained why revenue collapsed after the feature was shut down.

For a startup built around the image of a billionaire’s daughter proving she could make it on her own, the internal messages paint a very different picture.

And if federal investigators decide the conduct crossed the line into wire fraud, this scandal could become far more serious than a public relations disaster.

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