WSO Buyer (and affiliate) Fraud?

Happened to me also. Try to get a refund through the system first for the commission you paid. That will probably fail. They probably already cleared their Paypal account out. Then report that affiliate right away to the platform you are using. Just give refunds to the chargebacks. No point in even trying to fight it. You won't win.

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Well that is why I only works with reputed Affiliates.... Those who have good name and don't do these kind of BS.... I use to speak with them all the way during any of mine WSO launch and use to check if there is anything disturbing any affiliate?... Bottom Line, don't approve every affiliate, just see his previous history.... If that looks demanding to you, approve him/her.... Cheers

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Over the last several days I've had affiliate requests from 3 Warriors. I went and the first thing I look at is post count. All of these Warriors had a post count of ZERO so I immediately denied their affiliate request.

NOTE TO NEW WARRIORS: If you are serious and honest about promoting WSO offers then may I suggest you have at least 50 - 100 legitimate posts that offer something before making your request. This will save us both a lot of time!

Something similar happened to me recently with my new wso.. From now on i am more careful as far as who i let become an affiliate.

Good luck man,

Gengis

Yep, I've had 6 new aff requests today - all new Warriors that just joined today so I assume when you get 1 scammer affiliate, you start to get a bunch more requesting. Ugh. Time to clean house with affiliates and screen, screen, screen. :/

I don't care if it is my mom .. she's not getting paid until everything has cleared. Nothing personal .. just business.

Affiliate program doesn't offer delayed option. I don't use them.

I don't do WSOs (at least not yet) so I was always curious as to why one might deny an affiliate, as it seemed to be relatively risk-free.

I guess this explains it, that's for sure. Scammers always ruin everything for the rest of us.

That's why having an active community like this one is so important. It allows us to warn each other of an increase in suspicious activities and be on the lookout for it.

This community is also a valuable asset because scammers could in fact purchase your product, refund the purchase and then rip off your product entirely. Luckily this community is so active and recognizes almost all of these situations when purchasing products for themselves and can tell when someone has ripped off a product of someone else mostly because they have seen it somewhere else before and alert others quickly.

This unfortunately happens with any network that uses some form of "adaptive payments"...

I know many have said this already - but it really comes down to screening affiliates. I know folks have mentioned that they look for high post counts and what not.

Here's another tip I use and it helps get the "serious" affiliates. Simply send them a PM and tell them you want to approve them you just need a little info about how they intend to promote the product.

You'd be surprised how many folks won't even bother to respond... But the ones that do you can usually be confident in them (according to their answers of course). This also helps to get those affiliate who can send a lot of sales but don't spend much time on the forum.

Sounds like you did a good job sniffing it out quickly and taking the appropriate measures.

Reason 1) fraud
Reason 2) conversions

If you mass approve a lot of affiliates and they send a bunch of junk traffic and drive your conversions down then the chance of getting more affiliates to promote the product goes down significantly.

It does seem counterproductive, but when it comes to affiliates you want "quality" over quantity. One or two of the "right" affiliates can easily get you WSOTD.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Coby