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The Fraud Prevention Rules feature helps you protect your referral program from malicious partners, fake sign-ups, and bad traffic. By evaluating referral events, partner details, and payout methods against automated risk rules, the system flags suspicious activity, automatically holds commissions for review, and gives you tools to review risk scores or ban malicious partners.
customerEmailMatch): Triggers when a referred customer's email matches the partner's email, matches the partner's email domain, or matches a previously referred customer by the same partner.customerEmailSuspiciousDomain): Triggers when a referred customer uses a temporary or disposable email domain.paidTrafficDetected): Triggers when a click, event, or conversion originates from paid advertising traffic.referralSourceBanned): Triggers when a referral comes from a domain explicitly included on your banned sources list.partnerCrossProgramBan): Triggers when a partner has been banned from another program in the network due to confirmed fraudulent behavior or terms of service violations.partnerDuplicateAccount): Triggers when a partner is flagged for operating two or more accounts, sharing payout methods, or sharing cryptographic wallet addresses.partnerEmailDomainMismatch): Low-severity signal triggered when a partner's email domain does not match their website domain.partnerEmailMasked): Low-severity signal triggered when a partner uses an anonymized or masked email address.partnerNoSocialLinks): Medium-severity signal triggered when a partner provides no web or social presence.partnerNoVerifiedSocialLinks): Low-severity signal triggered when a partner's social links or website remain unverified.When a fraud rule triggers, the system automatically protects your program budget by placing affected commissions on hold.
hold.hold and detached from their payout batch. Payout amounts are then automatically recalculated.pending status.You can inspect flagged activity and manage risk events directly from your program's risk center or partner profiles.
low, medium, and high severity ranks. Partners applying with high-severity risks display warning banners on their application views.When you identify fraudulent activity, you can take action against the partner:
Tip
You can configure paid traffic platforms and whitelisted campaign IDs under your program's fraud rule settings to prevent false positives from legitimate marketing campaigns.
Warning
Disabling a fraud rule with pending events can automatically resolve related risk groups and release associated held commissions back to pending status. Review pending items carefully before disabling active rules.