Affiliate Fraud Detection
Rogue affiliates buy your branded search traffic and intercept your customers. You still pay the commission — on sales you would have won anyway. AdCrime gives you the evidence to stop it — screenshots, redirect chains, and affiliate IDs.
Affiliate fraud costs brands $3.4 billion annually in stolen commissions.
17% of all affiliate traffic is fake. Most brands don't know it's happening to them.
Built by an independent team in the EU. No VC funding. No sales calls. Just evidence.
Evidence console
live brand-bid investigation
SERP capture
Sponsored slot
Redirect chain
3 affiliate hops
Landing page
Tracked arrival
SCAN REPORT — [REDACTED BRAND]
flaggedregions scannedus / uk / de / sg / hk / ro
keywords3 brand terms
scan time< 60 seconds
Detection summary
statusconfirmed_fraud
confidence87%
domaincoupon-████████.com
networkshareasale
affiliate_id████████████
Evidence
⚠ad copy uses brand name with purchase-intent modifier
⚠redirect chain contains affiliate tracking before brand landing page
⚠coupon code not authorized by brand
The problem
Brand-bid abuse isn't theoretical. It is a customer searching for you, clicking a sponsored result from someone else, and triggering a commission on a sale that likely would have happened anyway.
A customer searches for your brand.
A real user searches your brand plus a buying modifier like coupon, deal, or promo.
An affiliate intercepts the click.
A sponsored affiliate ad sits above your own result and routes the visitor through tracked links first.
You still pay for the sale.
The customer converts anyway, but now the order carries a commission for traffic that was already yours.
Most brands find out about this months too late — or never.
We built AdCrime so you can find out today, for free.
Search result mock
How brand-bid leakage usually happens
Search query
"your brand coupon"
Sponsored result
best-deals-coupon.net | Your Brand Promo Codes
Click routes through an affiliate tracking link before landing on your site.
Official result
yourbrand.com — Official site
Still present, but no longer the easiest click to win.
Free scan
Enter your brand, website, and up to 3 keywords. We'll scan Google Ads from 6 regions and send you a report within 24 hours.
Your free scan includes
Violating domains with ad screenshots
5-tier classification (confirmed / likely / CSS shopping / competitor / unknown)
Redirect chain evidence
Coupon codes, affiliate IDs, and network details
We never share your data. Results sent only to your email.
Every scan is reviewed by our team before delivery. Questions? mario@adcrime.com
Request form
We only ask for what is needed to run the scan.
30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked.
Evidence section
Real detections from our monitoring network. Brand names redacted.
CONFIRMED FRAUD
87%domain: coupon-panda.com
keyword matched: [redacted] coupon code
region detected: 🇺🇸 United States
Affiliate ID: 847291
Network: ShareASale
Redirect: 3 hops via coupon-panda.com
Free report shows screenshots, domain, classification, and redirect evidence.
CONFIRMED FRAUD
72%domain: growthory.co
keyword matched: [redacted] discount
region detected: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Affiliate ID: aff_29174
Network: Impact
Coupon codes: SAVE20, DEAL15
Useful when you need evidence before confronting a partner.
COMPETITOR
0%domain: legitimate-competitor.com
keyword matched: [redacted] alternative
region detected: 🇩🇪 Germany
signal: no affiliate tracking detected
action: no fraud flag raised
Not every ad is fraud. The report makes that distinction clear.
No action needed
How it works
01
Enter your domain and the branded keywords you want protected. Takes 30 seconds.
02
We search from 6 regions the way a real customer would and capture every sponsored ad targeting your brand keywords.
03
Screenshots, redirect chains, affiliate IDs, network details, coupon codes, and classifications. Everything you need to act.
Market context
The affiliate fraud problem is massive — and most brands have no idea it's happening to them.
$3.4B
stolen annually in affiliate commissions
17%
of affiliate traffic is fake
43%
flagged as invalid in sector audits
10-30%
of affiliate payouts lost to unauthorized brand bidding
Sources: TrafficGuard, Fraudlogix, mFilterIt — 2025/2026 industry reports
Our approach
We're not a VC-funded enterprise platform with a sales team and a demo calendar. AdCrime is built by a small, independent team. No investors. No bullshit. Just accurate fraud detection at a fair price.
We built this because the existing tools cost $500-1,200/month and require sales calls. We think every brand deserves to know if affiliates are stealing their traffic — not just the ones with six-figure compliance budgets.
One caught fraudster pays for a year of AdCrime.
— The AdCrime Team
No project limits on any plan. Monitor as many brands as you need.
Credits adapt to any config — more keywords in fewer regions, or fewer keywords in more.
Enterprise plan includes full API access. Integrate fraud data into your existing tools.
Pricing
One confirmed fraudster found saves thousands in stolen commissions. All plans include a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Best for
Best for a focused first monitoring workflow.
$149/mo
100 credits / month
Example workload
≈ Monitor 1 brand, 3 keywords, 1 region daily
Best for
Best for multi-brand teams that need continuous monitoring and full affiliate intelligence.
$449/mo
500 credits / month
Example workload
≈ Monitor 2 brands, 5 keywords, 3 regions daily
Best for
Best for larger affiliate programs running high-volume, multi-region coverage.
$999/mo
1,500 credits / month
Example workload
≈ Monitor 5+ brands across all regions daily
1 credit = 1 keyword in 1 region before any automatic volume discount.
Larger configurations get cheaper per-unit pricing, but cost always increases when you add more keywords or regions.
Unused subscription credits roll forward for one billing cycle.
A single confirmed fraudster can justify the subscription quickly if the payout leakage is real.
Example workload
3 keywords × 3 regions × daily cadence can fit comfortably inside an Entry plan.
Multi-brand daily monitoring across multiple regions usually pushes teams into Pro.
Enterprise exists for programs that want broad, always-on coverage without rationing usage.
Final check
Free scan. No credit card. Results in 24 hours. If the problem is real, you'll have proof worth acting on.
Questions? mario@adcrime.com
