Originally Posted by xxxuniversity

Albeit, affiliates aren't customers. CCBill doesn't need to know anything about me other than how to send me a payment in order to pay me. Otherwise, do you have to check names, DOBs, SSNs, addresses of people you buy things from off of Craigslist? Do you need to verify company documentation and paperwork every time you go shop somewhere? If anybody would need to prove the origin of funds, it would be the PAYOR, not the PAYEE. As an affiliate, you are the PAYEE, and a PARTNER, not a customer.

These draconian measures actually contributing towards identity theft. The more unecessary collection of information, the more readily available that information becomes to criminals. I'm far more concerned about what CCBill, or somebody at CCBill, can do with information it doesn't need than the idea of CCBill paying an affiliate commission to an affiliate they didn't collect that information about. Is the act of being an affiliate and generating affiliate commission illegal? No. What is there for the affiliate to prove here?