My friend WinterWolf_394 spoke with a helper (Belle) regarding how they can confirm that they were referred to the game by someone, and they were instructed that either one of us can make a forum post in bugs/issues and have the other reply in confirmation to have this sorted (if possible).
Since I have more experience in torn and writing they have asked that I create the forum post, as such I will be having them reply to this post as confirmation.
Summary: I referred WinterWolf_394 [4151733] to Torn, they missed the referral link and thus didn't actually get referred by me