Urgent clickbank fraud issue, hoping some vendors will check & confirm this
On my main clickbank account (I'm a vendor), I have noticed a very large number of sales starting to happen from one affiliate account. I thought this was a good thing, obviously.
But tonight I discovered a major problem that smells like fraud. I was testing out affiliate links for an automated webinar I'm using. I wanted to ensure the affiliate's link would correctly track their sales before having them go live. So I'd click on their test link, then use a naked link to my order form to see if their affiliate ID showed up on the CB order form. It wan't working, and would show up as [affiliate=none].
So I'd try again to fix the affiliate link situation. I expected the form to say [affiliate=my_actual_affID]. But no ... what happened instead is the affilate ID showing up was something TOTALLY DIFFERENT. It was the same ID that matches all of the affiliate sales that have been showing up.
It's impossible, of course, for this to be honest. I never clicked on any affiliate link other than one I was testing for a different ID.
It's against the rules to share names and I don't have the person's name only their Clickbank ID. I won't share it except to say it ends in a letter X. That should be rare enough, but still secret enough to satisfy this forum's rules.
Anyone else suffering form this same problem?
My ratio of self-sales to affiliate sales has dropped bigtime since this particular "affiliate" (fraud) has started.
I have opened a ticket with CB obviously. They need to know about this. Next step is I'll check my hosting account records for suspicious activity.
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