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Originally Posted by borked
Can I ask how far your commitment stretches? Do you actively check your affiliate's signup ups coming in against fraud like dustman and made2ordervideos do?
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We've always done our best to ensure that our affiliates are treated honestly and fairly, but to be honest, I was not aware of the extent of the problem until very recently.
We do monitor signups and look for fraud, but the problem with the malware is the joins won't look obviously different from any others, so (as I said in the other thread) one of the things we want to look into is statistical analysis of the patterns behind the joins... if you have a sponsor with traffic literally coming from everywhere and not concentrated in any one source, and that sponsor has different conversion rates than other sponsors sending traffic from similar sites/promotion types, that would be very suspicious and we would act on it.
But to do that, we will have to write new scripts to analyze the traffic, and in the other thread there was some discussion about a collaborative effort to do that, which we'd be supportive of. Perhaps it can eventually be built into NATS, MPA3 and CCBill's own affiliate tracking.
But we're committed to acting on anything we can identify now, as well as investigating and acting on any reports we get from affiliates.