Affiliate fraud in a small SaaS program is rarely sophisticated. It is usually one of two things:...
Neither one looks like fraud in your dashboard. Both look like growth.
These are the checks worth wiring in before the program gets big enough for it to hurt.
Self-referral: match on the card, not the email
Email matching is the obvious check and the easiest to beat. Anyone who wants the commission will use a second address.
Stripe gives you something harder to fake. Every PaymentMethod carries card.fingerprint, which stays the same for the same physical card even across different customers.
The self-referral problem Someone signs up for your affiliate program, grabs their...
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You pay an affiliate 30% for referring a customer. Three weeks later that customer refunds. Now the...
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