Affiliate Fraud is an affiliate manager’s worst enemy and fighting fraud is one of the most time consuming tasks managers face on a day-to-day basis. There are 2 primary types of affiliate fraud that need to be dealt with. 1) Fraudulent affiliate applications – AMs with big programs get tons of fake apps every day. 2) Sales/lead fraud – after the sign-up process, sales and leads need to be monitored for all types of fraudulent activity.

I’m not aware of any affiliate network that has built-in fraud protection for both scenarios, but HasOffers just announced their new fraud prevention suite, which sounds very robust and should help affiliate managers a lot. Here is part of the press release.

HasOffers Affiliate Network Software Cracks Down on Fraud

BusinessWire: HasOffers releases the greatly anticipated fraud prevention tool Fraud Score, a unique feature for affiliate networks to shut down and prevent affiliate fraud.

Anyone dabbling in affiliate marketing knows that fraud is the number one concern of successful online advertisers and affiliate networks. From cookie stuffing and bogus leads to fraudulent credit card numbers, affiliates have become notorious for gaming the system to falsely inflate their conversions…

Available for HasOffers Pro and Enterprise platforms, Affiliate Profile Fraud monitors the affiliate signup process, preventing fraudulent account signups. This includes criteria such as the IP address not matching the state/region, the phone number not matching the country, the email address domain not being valid, and many more. More…