Are We Getting Scammed by Affiliates??

B Set · 01-21-2011, 07:41 AM

I work for a company that does some affiliate marketing and think someone may be trying to scam us and/or our affiliate (shocker, right?). Here's the deal.....Affiliate #1 has their pixel piggybacked onto ours for an offer and they show A LOT of leads in their system. In our tracking system we show NONE for that affiliate. They sent us an IP list of the transactions that occurred in their system for this offer and I looked to see if transactions occurred in our system under those same IP's....a majority of the IP's they sent are showing up in our system but under a different affiliate. And this is isolated to just this affiliate, out of a hundred or so, so it's not an issue with our tracking system. Is it possible for a sub-affiliate to work with Affiliate #1 and Affiliate #2 to get the same landing page link and then trick their systems into making it appear transactions occurred for both? Our system's cookie overrides past cookies so only one of our affiliates will get credit for a lead. Does anyone have thoughts on how a sub-affiliate is able to do this?

badboy_Nick · 01-21-2011, 07:56 AM

Could be a glitch in the system.

How about you actually analyze their landing pages and traffic. If they make a sale it needs to show up on the merchants system as well. No sale, no customer hence no commission. Probably the pixel is being triggered by visitors being able to access that site without having made a purchase at all.

Give it a shot, someone I know had a similar problem at another network I consulted for.

Nick

B Set · 01-21-2011, 08:07 AM

Sorry I left that part out....we actually looked in our merchants system/back end and nothing is showing up for Affiliate #1. So no transactions took place...just wondering if a sub-affiliate could trigger 2 different affiliate's pixel?

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badboy_Nick Super Affiliate War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1,255 Thanks: 3 Thanked 186 Times in 159 Posts	Re: Are We Getting Scammed by Affiliates?? Could be a glitch in the system. How about you actually analyze their landing pages and traffic. If they make a sale it needs to show up on the merchants system as well. No sale, no customer hence no commission. Probably the pixel is being triggered by visitors being able to access that site without having made a purchase at all. Give it a shot, someone I know had a similar problem at another network I consulted for. Nick
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01-21-2011, 08:07 AM	#3
B Set Active Warrior Join Date: May 2008 Location: Hoboken, NJ Posts: 39 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Are We Getting Scammed by Affiliates?? Sorry I left that part out....we actually looked in our merchants system/back end and nothing is showing up for Affiliate #1. So no transactions took place...just wondering if a sub-affiliate could trigger 2 different affiliate's pixel?

01-21-2011, 07:41 AM	#1
B Set Active Warrior Join Date: May 2008 Location: Hoboken, NJ Posts: 39 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Are We Getting Scammed by Affiliates?? I work for a company that does some affiliate marketing and think someone may be trying to scam us and/or our affiliate (shocker, right?). Here's the deal.....Affiliate #1 has their pixel piggybacked onto ours for an offer and they show A LOT of leads in their system. In our tracking system we show NONE for that affiliate. They sent us an IP list of the transactions that occurred in their system for this offer and I looked to see if transactions occurred in our system under those same IP's....a majority of the IP's they sent are showing up in our system but under a different affiliate. And this is isolated to just this affiliate, out of a hundred or so, so it's not an issue with our tracking system. Is it possible for a sub-affiliate to work with Affiliate #1 and Affiliate #2 to get the same landing page link and then trick their systems into making it appear transactions occurred for both? Our system's cookie overrides past cookies so only one of our affiliates will get credit for a lead. Does anyone have thoughts on how a sub-affiliate is able to do this?