Risk & fraud

An Ad Fraud Detection Platform is third-party software that scores incoming traffic and conversions for fraud signals such as bots, click farms, proxy use and duplicate identities. It flags or blocks suspect activity be…

Affiliate fraud is any deceptive or manipulative tactic a partner uses to trigger commissions they did not legitimately earn. It spans fake leads, bot-driven clicks, cookie stuffing, incentivised sign-ups, and self-refe…

Bonus abuse is the exploitation of a broker's promotional offers — no-deposit bonuses, deposit matches, or cashback — to extract value with no genuine trading intent. Abusers typically open multiple accounts or hedge op…

Bot traffic is any visit, click, impression, or form submission on your affiliate links generated by automated software rather than a real human. The scripts imitate browser behavior to inflate volume, but the visitors …

A chargeback is a forced reversal of a card payment initiated by the cardholder's bank rather than by the merchant. In brokerage, it happens when a trader disputes a deposit with their card issuer and the funds are pull…

Chargeback fraud is the deliberate abuse of the card-dispute system: a client knowingly deposits funds, receives the service, then falsely disputes the legitimate transaction to claw the money back. Unlike a genuine fra…

The chargeback rate is the percentage of a merchant's card transactions that end in a chargeback over a given period. It is the single number card networks and payment processors watch to decide whether a broker is a sa…

A clawback is a contractual right that lets a broker reclaim commission it already paid an Introducing Broker (IB) or affiliate once the referred client turns out to be non-qualifying — through a chargeback, refunded de…

Click fraud is the deliberate generation of clicks on a paid ad or affiliate link with no genuine interest behind them — driven by bots, click farms, or malicious competitors — in order to waste an advertiser's budget o…

Cookie stuffing is a fraudulent affiliate technique that secretly plants a broker's tracking cookie in a visitor's browser without any genuine click on the affiliate's link — so if that person ever opens an account, the…

The deposit-to-withdrawal (D/W) ratio compares the total money clients deposit against the total they withdraw over a period. It is a headline indicator of how profitable and "sticky" a traffic source is for the broker …

Device fingerprinting is a tracking technique that identifies a specific device by combining dozens of hardware and software signals — screen resolution, GPU, browser version, time zone, language, installed fonts, and m…

Domain spoofing is a fraud tactic in which someone registers a web address that closely imitates a legitimate broker or affiliate — swapping a letter, using a zero for an 'O', or adding a word — to deceive visitors into…

A duplicate IP is when two or more trading accounts or affiliate sign-ups originate from the same Internet Protocol address. Because an IP identifies the network a device connects from, matching IPs across accounts is o…

A Fraud Detection System (FDS) is the software a broker uses to analyse users, devices, payments, and trading behaviour in real time and automatically flag or block deceptive activity. It is the gatekeeper that decides …

The Household IP rule is a broker anti-fraud policy that voids partner commissions and client bonuses when the referring IB and the referred trader connect from the same IP address, device fingerprint, or physical resid…

Latency arbitrage is a trading strategy that exploits the millisecond delay between a broker's displayed price and the true market price. The trader acts on price moves the broker's feed has not yet caught up to, extrac…

Multiple accounts fraud is the practice of one person creating many trading profiles — often under fake, borrowed, or synthetic identities — to abuse partner CPA triggers, welcome bonuses, or platform limits. Each profi…

Related party trading is coordinated trading between connected accounts — family, business partners, or the same operator behind several profiles — arranged to harvest volume-based rebates or bonuses rather than to take…

Self-rebate is a prohibited practice in which a person opens an Introducing Broker (IB) or affiliate account for the sole purpose of referring their own trading account, so they collect a commission or spread discount o…

Toxic traffic is referred volume that systematically destroys value for the broker instead of creating it — clients who chargeback deposits, abuse bonuses, exploit latency arbitrage, or are simply bots and dead registra…

VPN and proxy traffic is referred activity where the user hides their real IP address and geographic location behind a Virtual Private Network (VPN) or proxy server. In brokerage affiliate marketing it is heavily scruti…

Wash trading is opening and closing offsetting positions almost instantly, with no genuine intent to profit from market movement, purely to manufacture trading volume. In the partner world it is used to farm IB rebates …