Heyo! Welcome to the $100 NBA show where your business gets better every single day with

their daily 10 minute business lessons for the real world. I'm your host, your

coach, your teacher Omar's at home. I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business training and community

online.

And today's episode is a Q&A Wednesday episode.

On our Q&A Wednesday episodes, I answer a question from one of you, one of our listeners.

If you have a question you want to ask to just email me over at Omar at 100MBA.

Today's question comes from Craig and Craig asks,

How do I stop scammers from abusing my affiliate program?

Who, this is a big one Craig, and those who've run affiliate programs before

know exactly what I'm talking about.

When you run an affiliate program, you're

allowing people to sign up as affiliates to promote your product or service for a

commission. So how do scammers get involved? Well, scammers that steal credit card information

from somebody else, they'll sign up as an affiliate, buy with the stolen credit card just

so they can earn commission on that sale.

Crazy, I know, but it's an epidemic with online businesses.

So in today's episode, I'm going to answer this question and show you how you can reduce

some of this scammy activity. There are things you could do in your affiliate

program to make sure you don't pay out affiliates that are doing this scammy

behavior and how to catch them and make sure they don't continue to do so.

I haven't learned this the hard way so I want to share it with you so you can go straight to a

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