Fraud Policy

Last updated: June 2026

This Fraud Policy explains how we, the operators of the Influencemart affiliate-aggregator network (the “Platform”, operated by Influencemart), identify and respond to fraud and abuse. It applies to everyone on the network — affiliates, merchants, and any party acting on their behalf — and forms part of your agreement with us alongside our Terms of Service, the Affiliate Policy, and the Merchant Policy. By using the network you agree to the rules below.

Affiliate aggregation works only when every click and conversion in the ledger reflects a real person taking a real action. Fraud breaks that promise: it steals from honest publishers, charges merchants for value that was never delivered, and erodes trust in the whole network. We treat fraud prevention as a core operating responsibility, not an afterthought. Our wider integrity expectations and the controls behind them are described on our trust & safety page; this policy sets out the specific behaviours we prohibit and how we enforce.

In this policy, “fraud” means any attempt to generate, inflate, divert, suppress, or claim activity or payouts that you are not genuinely entitled to, whether by deception, automation, manipulation, or collusion. We do not need to prove intent before acting to protect the network — a demonstrable pattern of artificial or manipulated activity is sufficient.

1. Fake clicks

A “fake click” is any click that does not represent a genuine, willing person engaging with an offer. This includes, without limitation:

• Generating clicks yourself, paying others to click, or incentivising clicks that the user has no real interest in following through.
• Forced, hidden, auto-loading, or pop-under clicks; iframe stuffing; pixel-stuffing; or clicks fired without a deliberate user action.
• Cookie stuffing — dropping tracking cookies on visitors who never engaged with the offer in order to claim later conversions you did not drive.
• Re-clicking, click farms, or recycling traffic through redirects purely to inflate click counts or manufacture last-touch attribution.

Clicks that we assess as artificial are not eligible for attribution. Conversions that depend on such clicks may be voided even if they later appear genuine.

2. Bot traffic

Bot traffic is activity produced by automation rather than people — scripts, headless browsers, emulators, server-to-server callers impersonating users, residential-proxy farms, or any tooling designed to imitate human browsing. You may not:

• Send, buy, or knowingly accept non-human traffic toward tracked links or conversion endpoints.
• Disguise automated traffic as human — spoofing user agents, randomising fingerprints, or rotating IPs to evade detection.
• Operate, or route traffic through, services whose purpose is to simulate clicks, installs, sessions, or conversions.

We continuously filter traffic that exhibits machine-generated characteristics. Affiliates remain responsible for the quality of the traffic they send, including traffic acquired from third-party sources; “a vendor sent it” is not a defence.

3. Duplicate conversion attempts

Each genuine order or qualifying action should be recorded once. A duplicate conversion attempt is any effort to register the same underlying event more than once, or to split or replay an event to multiply commissions. This includes:

• Replaying a tracking reference, retrying a conversion without the documented idempotency safeguards, or resubmitting the same order under different identifiers.
• Fragmenting a single transaction into multiple conversions, or claiming the same sale across several affiliate accounts.
• Backfilling or re-posting historical conversions to inflate volume after the fact.

Our event ledger is append-only and idempotent by design, so duplicates are typically rejected or collapsed at intake. Persistent attempts to force duplicates through are treated as deliberate abuse, and the affected commissions are reversed.

4. Self-referral abuse

Self-referral abuse is earning, or trying to earn, commissions on your own purchases or activity, or arranging for related parties to do so. You may not:

• Click your own links and complete the purchase yourself to capture the commission.
• Use household members, alternate or fake identities, employees, or connected accounts to route your own orders through your affiliate links.
• Coordinate with a merchant, or another affiliate, to manufacture conversions that benefit you both without real customer demand.
• Operate multiple affiliate accounts to circumvent limits, evade enforcement, or claim the same activity twice.

Commissions arising from self-referral are void on discovery, and repeated or organised self-dealing is grounds for suspension or termination.

5. Coupon misuse

Coupons and promo codes are powerful, and easy to abuse. Coupon misuse covers practices that hijack attribution or manufacture discounts you were not meant to control, including:

• Publishing, scraping, or distributing unauthorised, leaked, employee-only, or expired codes to intercept conversions you did not originate.
• Bidding on or impersonating a merchant’s brand to rank coupon pages that capture organic, already-converting customers.
• Auto-applying codes or injecting last-touch coupons at checkout to override another affiliate’s legitimate attribution.
• Promoting codes outside the geographies, products, or terms a merchant has approved, or generating codes through manipulation of the merchant’s systems.

Conversions driven by misused coupons are not eligible for commission and may be clawed back. Merchants set the rules for their own codes via their campaigns; affiliates must honour those rules.

6. Suspicious payout behaviour

Because payouts are where value leaves the network, we scrutinise patterns around withdrawals closely. Behaviour we treat as suspicious includes:

• Rapidly changing payout details immediately before a withdrawal, or routing payouts to accounts inconsistent with the account holder’s verified identity.
• Earning that spikes abnormally and is followed by an immediate cash-out, in a way that does not match a normal publishing pattern.
• Sharing payout destinations across otherwise unrelated accounts, or structuring activity to move funds before conversions have fully cleared.
• Providing false identity, tax, or banking information to enable a payout.

We may require identity or ownership verification before releasing funds, and we may pause a withdrawal while we review it. The mechanics of how confirmed commissions become payable — and the states a commission passes through — are described in our payout and commission documentation; this policy governs the fraud controls layered on top of that process.

7. Merchant API misuse

Merchants integrate by calling our API to register conversions and update order state, and that trust can be abused in both directions. Merchant API misuse includes:

• Posting fabricated, inflated, or test conversions as if they were real, or colluding with an affiliate to manufacture commissions.
• Suppressing, under-reporting, mis-stating order values, or selectively voiding valid conversions to avoid paying commissions genuinely owed.
• Overwriting or stripping affiliate attribution to deny the publisher who drove the sale.
• Sharing or leaking API keys and signing secrets, evading rate limits, scraping, or probing the system, or using credentials for activity outside the integration’s purpose.

Merchants are accountable for every call made with their credentials, including by staff, contractors, or platforms acting on their behalf. Integration requirements and signing rules are set out in our API overview; deviating from them in a way that distorts the ledger is treated as fraud.

8. CSV / report manipulation

Some merchants report through file uploads or batch feeds rather than live API calls, and reports flow back out for reconciliation. Manipulating those files is prohibited. You may not:

• Alter, reorder, backdate, or fabricate rows in uploaded conversion, order-status, or refund files to change who is paid or how much.
• Inject malformed, oversized, or specially crafted files intended to bypass validation, corrupt processing, or smuggle in conversions that did not occur.
• Edit exported statements or reports and present them as authoritative in a dispute, or tamper with reconciliation data to mask under- or over-reporting.
• Withhold, delay, or selectively upload files to time payouts to your advantage.

The Platform’s own ledger is the system of record. Where an uploaded or exported file conflicts with the ledger, the ledger governs, and a file that shows signs of tampering may be rejected in full pending review.

9. The investigation process

When activity is flagged — automatically, by a report from a merchant or affiliate, or during routine reconciliation — we open a review. At a high level, an investigation typically involves:

• Detection and triage. Signals from traffic quality, conversion patterns, account behaviour, and ledger consistency are weighed together to decide whether and how urgently to investigate.
• Evidence gathering. We examine the relevant events, attribution chain, payout history, and any associated accounts, and we may ask the affected party for verification, records, or an explanation.
• Protective measures. Where the network or other users are at risk, we may place commissions, payouts, or accounts on hold while the review continues, so that disputed value is not paid out prematurely.
• Determination and action. We reach a finding and apply a proportionate response, from clearing the flag to voiding commissions or terminating accounts, and we keep a record of the decision.

We aim to be fair and proportionate, and we will generally give a good-faith participant a chance to respond. To protect the integrity of our controls, we do not publish exact detection thresholds, scoring weights, model details, or the specific signals that triggered a particular review. Disclosing those would simply hand a playbook to bad actors. We may decline to share details that would compromise an ongoing investigation or another user’s privacy.

10. Hold / suspension actions

Our response is scaled to the severity, scale, and repetition of the conduct. Depending on the case, we may take one or more of the following actions:

• Filtering. Silently discounting traffic or conversions we assess as invalid so they never accrue commission.
• Holds. Temporarily freezing specific commissions, a pending payout, or withdrawal eligibility while we verify or investigate, without prejudging the outcome.
• Voids and clawbacks. Reversing fraudulent or ineligible commissions, and recovering amounts already paid by offset against future earnings or by direct recovery where offset is not possible.
• Suspension. Pausing an account, an affiliate’s links, or a merchant’s campaigns to stop ongoing harm while matters are resolved.
• Termination. Permanently closing an account, forfeiting ineligible balances tied to the fraud, and barring re-registration for serious, repeated, or organised abuse.
• Escalation. Reporting unlawful conduct to the appropriate authorities in Nepal and cooperating with legitimate investigations.

These remedies are cumulative and in addition to any other rights we have under your agreement with us or applicable law. Forfeited or recovered amounts attributable to fraud may, where appropriate, be returned to the party that was harmed. If you believe an action was taken in error, contact us — provide your account details and any evidence, and we will review it.

Not legal advice

This summary is provided for transparency and is not a substitute for professional legal advice. It does not create rights beyond your agreement with us, and where it conflicts with a signed agreement, that agreement governs. We may update this policy as fraud techniques, the network, and applicable law in Nepal evolve; material changes will be reflected in the “Last updated” date above and, where appropriate, communicated directly. Nothing here limits our ability to act quickly to protect the network where we reasonably believe fraud is occurring.

Questions, or want to report suspected fraud? Contact us at support@affiliatenepal.com or via our contact page. You may also want to review our trust & safety page and, for the behaviour we expect from publishers, our Affiliate Policy.