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Originally Posted by jreg81
Another thing interesting about your sentence quoted above; it makes one wonder, what is their business model? Just to get away with it long enough for one or two payouts? Then what? Then you're busted and the payouts stop. Just move on to the next program and hope for another one or two payouts?
To me it doesn't seem like a very sustainable practice. Maybe carding takes such little effort that they don't care much. I don't know.
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A lot of these guys live in countries where they can get by for a month on a couple hundred bucks. And they can sign up at least once for as many cousins and brothers they have, in a poor country this may be hundreds, multiply that by how many programs they plan to target. So you are not going to ever get to a point where you've banned every scammer out there.
What works for me is on a daily, weekly or monthly basis depending on how many new affiliates I have and how much volume I am doing, to export all my joins into a spreadsheet somehow.
Sort by IP address first, eyeball down the list and look for dupes.
Sort by email, look for dupes or anything fishy.
If you can, depending on who your billing solution is if you can get the last four, sort by credit card #.
Keep an eye out for duplicates and that will usually tell you right away who is cheating.
Of course chargeback ratios that are not sustainable for your program are not acceptable whether the affiliate is legit or not. If you have 100 affiliates and 99 of them have CB ratios of 1% and one has 9%, you can be pretty sure the problem can be solved by eliminating that affiliate, determining whether its actually his fault or not may be beyond the scope of your responsibility as a program owner to your other affiliates. After all if you lose your merchant account, nobody is getting paid.