Originally Posted by John Marco

I'm surprised there isn't a shared blacklist of fraudulent affiliate accounts. I was thinking it might be a good idea to start one to log fraud instances.

We cancel at least one affiliate for using stolen credit card numbers to sign up every day or two. I would gather that smaller affiliate programs don't have the resources to hire a 24/7 fraud team like we do and I can imagine they are hit very hard with fraud, with fraudsters praying on those who they might consider new or inexperienced.

How do you guys deal with fraud? It seems most is fairly simple to deal with:

IP/billing address mismatches
Mismatched usernames/email addresses/billing names
Members using proxies to connect
No or little activity on the site
Generic pages or poorly made pages as referring URLs
Redirected pages as referring URLs

We should all get together and start a shared blacklist of distinguishing information, such as Epassporte ID's, payment addresses, etc.