Commission Junction Hires Web Detectives

[mandy]

The large e-commerce affiliate network known as Commission Junction (CJ) is gearing up a campaign that uses automated searches of the Web to catch dishonest participants.

The network has contracted with Cyveillance, a firm that monitors the online use of trademarked terms, to "spider" the Internet seeking affiliates that generate commissions without legitimately earning them.

Searching For Banned Practices

• Cookie stuffing...
  
• Forced clicks....
  
• Security exploits...
  

full article: http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/solutions...hp/3560261

[bargainbloodhound]

How nice! : CJ is going to actually try and fight affiliate fraud!  Is CJ finally admitting that their merchants lose thousands of dollars due to inadequate anti-fraud systems at CJ?  How nice!  :

Signed,

A former CJ Merchant who lost $1000s due to affiliate fraud while using CJ to run our affiliate program from '99-'01. 


*yes, years later I'm still annoyed at CJ    ...although to be fair to them, the anti-fraud systems they had in place 4 years ago were much better than many other affiliate networks had in place--but they were still inadequate and affiliate fraud was (and continues to be) a huge problem*