Affiliate Fraud Detection Build the rule set a program owner uses to flag fraudulent affiliate activity, then investigate and escalate it. This is a defensive skill: it protects programs from being defrauded, and describes each fraud pattern only to the depth needed to recognize it. No canonical affiliate-fraud detection framework exists. The only ratified standard is the IAB/MRC invalid-traffic split, an ad-measurement standard the affiliate industry borrows rather than one written for affiliate programs: - GIVT - caught by routine list filtration: known bots, data-center IPs, non-browser us…