My message to affiliate managers is be careful when you reject affiliates.
I make a point of NEVER working again with ANY network that rejects me. And I do this full time and my earnings are only going up so it's really their loss.
The reason I get ****ed, is because stopping 99% of affiliate fraud can be done on a standard fraud risk points system (which my application should NEVER set off). If people reject me, it means that they are either idiots or lazy - in both cases not the type of people I would want to start a long term business relationship with.
Common indicators for affiliate fraud at the application stage are:
free email address
free website
high fraud risk countries (africa, turkey, phils and china and eastern europe being the main ones)
no phone number
fake phone numer
home address that appears on internet (use google)
application from public proxy server
There are a bunch of others, but if a new affiliate matches a COUPLE of these then you usually need to start worrying.
At the sale/lead stage, a lot of fraudulant affiliates try to hussle you into paying out quickly (so you don't have time to check everything) either by email or by phone. Don't be bullied.
The most successful affiliate fraud involves stolen credit cards - I won't explain the process on a public forum but my message to merchants is don't be lazy when checking your sales and affiliate stats.
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