Application Support:Affiliate Profile Fraud
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Affiliate Profile Fraud
Customize your own fraud criteria to approve new affiliates and monitor affiliate profile fraud. Give weight to the fraud criteria your network finds most important. Fraud Score is a tool that can be used to monitor your affiliates and detect fraudulent affiliate accounts. It allows the network to select fraud criteria that should be monitored and recorded, blocked and flagged. Included with the Fraud score you will receive charts, customized criteria preference settings, threshold percentage ratios, alerts and reports. You can customize your Fraud Score settings by hovering over the “Company” tab, selecting “Customize Application”, and clicking “Affiliate Profile Fraud”.
Profile Fraud Distribution Chart
The Profile Fraud Distribution Chart displays the percentage of profile fraud for your collective affiliates based on the customized criteria settings you’ve selected. Each affiliate will be given a fraud score (a probability of profile fraud percentage) based on your customized criteria. Once you’ve customized your profile fraud settings, the profile fraud distribution are updated in a pie chart, which represents the part each criteria plays in calculating fraud. Hover over each piece of the pie to see the exact percentage. You can preview the profile fraud distribution chart by hovering over the “Company” tab, selecting “Customize Application”, and clicking “Affiliate Profile Fraud”.
Setup Profile Fraud Criteria
Profile Fraud criteria are the categories of fraud detection that can be customized to track affiliate profile information that is collected at signup and when an affiliate updates their account information. Fraud criteria are broken down into 13 different profile fraud detection categories. Each category can be set by selecting, “edit” next to Fraud Criteria. You can rate each category on a scale of probability from 0 to 10, 0 being the lowest level of importance and 10 being the highest, before choosing to have the affiliate profile flagged. For urgent attention you can set an Immediate Flag. The Flag means you will be notified as soon as it occurs. Our fraud system weighs your ratings, weighing each criteria on a probability percentage. For example, if you select 10 for PO Box as Address and 0 for the rest, 100% of your fraud monitoring would be based on this category alone. Click “Save” to save your criteria ratings.
Fraud Criteria Categories
PO Box as Address
The criteria rating by which you will be notified when an affiliate enters a PO Box as an address at signup or makes changes to their account. You can rate this category on a scale of probability from 0 to 10.
No number in Address
The criteria rating by which you will be notified when numbers are not entered in the address at signup. You can rate this category on a scale of probability from 0 to 10.
Address is less than 5 Characters in length
The criteria rating by which you will be notified when the address is entered with less than 5 characters in length at signup. You can rate this category on a scale of probability from 0 to 10.
Stat/Region and Zip do not match
The criteria rating by which you will be notified when the Stat/Region and Zip do not match. You can rate this category on a scale of probability from 0 to 10.
Invalid Email address domain
The criteria rating by which you will be notified when an Invalid Email address domain is entered. You can rate this category on a scale of probability from 0 to 10.
Free Email address provider
The criteria rating by which you will be notified when a free email address provider is entered. You can rate this category on a scale of probability from 0 to 10.
Phone number does not match Country
The criteria rating by which you will be notified when the phone number doesn’t match the country entered. You can rate this category on a scale of probability from 0 to 10.
1-800 Phone Number
The criteria rating by which you will be notified when a 1-800 phone number is entered. You can rate this category on a scale of probability from 0 to 10
IP does not match State/Region
The criteria rating by which you will be notified when the IP address does not match the State/Region. You can rate this category on a scale of probability from 0 to 10
Checks are made payable to Individual’s name
The criteria rating by which you will be notified when the form or payment for checks are made payable to the individual affiliate’s name. You can rate this category on a scale of probability from 0 to 10
Account with similar information terminated by other network
The criteria rating by which you will be notified when an account with similar information has been blocked by other HasOffers networks. (This does not include affiliates that were rejected by other networks) You can rate this category on a scale of probability from 0 to 10
Duplicate Signup
The criteria rating by which you will be notified when there are duplicate signups. You can rate this category on a scale of probability from 0 to 10
Country Origin
The criteria rating by which you will be notified when the country origin is entered incorrectly. You can rate this category on a scale of probability from 0 to 10
Affiliate Profile Threshold Settings
Each affiliate will be given a fraud score (a probably of profile fraud percentage) based on your customized criteria. Once an affiliate reaches a certain profile fraud probability percentage, you can choose to be alerted or to automatically block the affiliate. Click “edit” next to Threshold Settings. In the Fraud Alert Threshold box, enter the percentage at which you would like to be notified once an affiliate reaches this threshold. In the Automatic Block Threshold box, enter the percentage at which you would like to automatically block your affiliate once that threshold is reached.
Viewing Affiliate Profile Fraud Activity
You can view the profile fraud score of new affiliate’s, who sign up for your network by hovering over “Affiliates” tab and selecting "Pending Affiliates”. You can also view each existing affiliate’s fraud score at any time by hovering over “Reports” and selecting “Affiliate Fraud Report”. Here, the Profile Fraud percentage is listed along with the fraud criteria that contributed to the score. Individual affiliate’s profile fraud score can be found on each affiliate’s profile page.
Affiliate Fraud Profile Updates
You can preview affiliate profile fraud updates when you log into your network on the “Snapshot” page. In the “Fraud Score” table you will find details about the number of affiliates that have reached your customized criteria settings and the combined fraud percentage for those affiliates. Included on this page, are quick links to preview the “Affiliate Fraud Report” and to edit “affiliate profile fraud” settings.
Individual Affiliate Profile Settings
For each affiliate, you can set up custom thresholds to monitor individual affiliates more closely. Hover over the “Affiliates” tab and select “Manage Affiliates”. Select the account name and click “view” next to the Fraud table. You can enable or disable a fraud alert for a specific affiliate at any time by selecting the boxes next to their specific fraud alert criteria. You may uncheck the boxes to disable the specific criteria from weighing into their fraud score. Click “edit” next to custom Threshold Settings to override your network-wide thresholds with new ones specific to that affiliate. Select “update settings” to save changes.
Affiliate Fraud Profile Reporting
The Affiliate Fraud Report displays the percentage probability and the fraud alert criteria that contributed for each specific affiliate. The affiliate profile fraud percentages are based upon criteria selected by you and are displayed in this report. You can preview this report by hovering over the Reports tab and selecting Affiliate Fraud Report.
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