<b>LEAK: legit affiliates are getting caught in self-referral fraud nets</b>

<b>LEAK: legit affiliates are getting caught in self-referral fraud nets</b>

Word from a risk analyst: anti-fraud systems on crypto programs are flagging clean affiliates because their <i>traffic</i> behaves like self-referral — same device fingerprints across users (shared browser setups in some geos), VPN clusters, deposits in round numbers from the same processor.

You didn't cheat. Your audience just looks suspicious to a model tuned for the worst case.

For affiliates:
— If you push geos where users share devices or default to VPNs, expect false flags. Document your traffic source proactively.
— Diversify deposit methods and entry points so your conversions don't cluster into one fraud-shaped blob.
— When flagged, ask which <i>signal</i> tripped it. A program that won't tell you is a program that void-by-default.

Clean traffic that pattern-matches dirty traffic still gets held. Watch this.