{"id":11305,"date":"2026-09-04T04:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymahotsav.com\/knowledgebase\/docs\/non-knowledgebase\/uncategorized\/protecting-your-referrals-with-fraud-prevention\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T04:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:51:15","password":"","slug":"protecting-your-referrals-with-fraud-prevention","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/mymahotsav.com\/knowledgebase\/docs\/mm-guides\/utsav-bookings\/marketing-affiliates-ecosystem\/fraud-prevention-compliance\/protecting-your-referrals-with-fraud-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting Your Referrals with Fraud Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background:#f3f0fb;border-left:4px solid #7c5cbf;border-radius:8px;padding:14px 18px;margin:22px 0;line-height:1.6;\">&#128100; <strong>Who this is for<\/strong><br \/>Affiliates on Utsav Affiliates &mdash; anyone sharing a referral link or code and earning commission from it. This article explains how your referrals are protected and what the protection means for the figures in your dashboard. It is an explanation rather than a walkthrough, so there is nothing here for you to set up.<\/div>\n<h2>Quick answer<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Utsav Affiliates fraud prevention monitors clicks and referrals for suspicious patterns such as self-referrals, protecting your commission accuracy. It runs automatically across the whole platform, so there is nothing for you to install, enable or configure on your own affiliate account &mdash; the screening is already working on every link you share.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Before you begin<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>You need an approved affiliate account. If your application is still being reviewed, no referrals are being recorded yet.<\/li>\n<li>Your affiliate dashboard is reached from the profile dropdown on the main site, or directly at <a href=\"https:\/\/mymahotsav.com\/utsav-affiliates\/affiliate-dashboard\/\">https:\/\/mymahotsav.com\/utsav-affiliates\/affiliate-dashboard\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>If a sign-in box appears instead of your dashboard, you are not signed in. Sign in and open the link again.<\/li>\n<li>If a sign-up form appears instead, the account you are signed in with has not been approved as an affiliate.<\/li>\n<li>Nothing in this article asks you to change a setting. Fraud prevention is not a switch on your account, and you will not find it in the menu down the left-hand side of your dashboard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"background:#f4f6f8;border-left:4px solid #9aa4b2;border-radius:8px;padding:14px 18px;margin:22px 0;line-height:1.6;\">&#8505;&#65039; <strong>Note<\/strong><br \/>Fraud prevention is a platform-wide protection, configured and maintained centrally. You do not see its rules or thresholds, and you cannot turn them up or down for your own links. What you can see is the <em>result<\/em>: which of your referrals counted, and which did not.<\/div>\n<h2>What does fraud prevention actually screen for?<\/h2>\n<p>Every time somebody clicks your referral link, that click is recorded as a visit. If that person goes on to buy or sign up, the visit becomes a referral and a commission is calculated. Fraud prevention sits between those two moments and asks whether the activity looks genuine.<\/p>\n<p>In practice, the screening looks for patterns that do not match a real person discovering the platform through you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Self-referrals<\/strong> &mdash; purchases and sign-ups made by you, through your own link.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Repeated clicks from the same source<\/strong> &mdash; the same device or network hitting a link over and over, which inflates visit counts without representing new interest.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bursts of activity that arrive too fast<\/strong> &mdash; a volume or rhythm of clicks that no genuine audience produces.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sign-ups using throwaway or blocked addresses<\/strong> &mdash; accounts created only to trigger a commission.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Referrals with no real visit behind them<\/strong> &mdash; a conversion attributed to a link that was never meaningfully used.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The point of all of this is not to catch you out. It is to make sure that when a commission lands in your account, it is defensible &mdash; so it is far less likely to be disputed or reversed weeks later.<\/p>\n<h2>Why a self-referral never earns a commission<\/h2>\n<p>This is the rule affiliates run into most often, so it is worth stating plainly: <strong>you cannot earn commission on your own purchase.<\/strong> If you click your own referral link and buy something with the account attached to your affiliate profile, no commission is recorded. The order still goes through normally &mdash; you simply do not get paid a referral fee on it.<\/p>\n<p>This is deliberate and it is applied to everyone. A referral programme only works if the platform can show that each commission came from somebody genuinely new, brought in by the affiliate. Allowing affiliates to pay themselves a discount through their own links would undermine that for every affiliate on the platform, including you.<\/p>\n<p>The same logic extends to arrangements that look like self-referrals from the outside &mdash; buying through a second account of your own, or asking a friend to place an order purely so you collect the fee. Even where such activity is not caught automatically, it breaches the terms of the programme and can be reversed on review.<\/p>\n<h2>How a screened referral looks in your dashboard<\/h2>\n<p>Fraud prevention does not send you a notification, and there is no alerts panel. What it changes is the <strong>status<\/strong> a referral carries in your <strong>Referrals<\/strong> tab, which lists every referral against your account with its reference, amount, description, status and date.<\/p>\n<p>The statuses you will see there work like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pending<\/strong> &mdash; recorded, but not yet confirmed. A referral sits here while the order behind it settles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unpaid<\/strong> &mdash; confirmed and owed to you, waiting for the next payout run.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paid<\/strong> &mdash; already included in a payout you have received.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rejected<\/strong> &mdash; the referral will not be paid. This is where a referral goes if it fails a check, or if the order behind it was cancelled or refunded.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A referral without fraud-prevention screening behind it would simply be counted; a screened one has to earn its place before it moves from Pending to Unpaid. That extra step is why your figures may take a little longer to firm up, and it is also why they hold up when they do.<\/p>\n<p>To read an individual referral properly &mdash; including what was actually bought and by whom the order was placed &mdash; see <a href=\"https:\/\/mymahotsav.com\/knowledgebase\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=11148\">Viewing Order Details for Your Referrals<\/a>. Your <strong>Visits<\/strong> tab is the other half of the picture: it shows the clicks that arrived, whether or not they converted.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#fff6f1;border-left:4px solid #e0592b;border-radius:8px;padding:14px 18px;margin:22px 0;line-height:1.6;\">&#128161; <strong>Tip<\/strong><br \/>Your Referrals tab and the summary cards on your dashboard landing page are counting slightly different things. Pending referrals are listed in the table but are deliberately left out of the summary counts and earnings totals until they are confirmed. If the two disagree, trust the table &mdash; nothing has gone missing.<\/div>\n<h2>What this protection does and does not cover<\/h2>\n<p>Fraud prevention works <em>alongside<\/em> the wider protections already running on the platform, not instead of them. Several layers are in play at once: the screening described here, the ordinary order checks that reverse a commission when a customer refunds, and the manual review a team member can carry out on any account.<\/p>\n<p>It is just as important to know what it will not do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It does not guarantee a commission.<\/strong> A referral that passes screening can still be reversed later if the underlying order is refunded or cancelled.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It does not police your promotion methods.<\/strong> Screening looks at click and conversion patterns, not at where you shared a link. Keeping to the programme terms is still your responsibility.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It does not give you controls.<\/strong> There is no per-link protection setting, no fraud report in your dashboard, and no way to whitelist a visitor you know is genuine.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It does not explain its decisions to you.<\/strong> The dashboard shows the status of a referral, not the reason behind it. For that, you need to ask.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How do I report suspicious activity?<\/h2>\n<p>There is no report button in the affiliate dashboard, so reporting is done by contacting support. Do get in touch if you notice any of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visits or referrals appearing against your account that you cannot account for.<\/li>\n<li>Someone else using your referral link or code in a way you did not authorise.<\/li>\n<li>A referral you are confident is genuine that has been rejected.<\/li>\n<li>Another affiliate appearing to game the programme.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Include the <strong>reference number<\/strong> and <strong>date<\/strong> of each referral involved, taken from your Referrals tab, along with the amount. Those three details let the team find the exact record quickly. If your concern is about traffic rather than a specific referral, give the date range and the campaign or link involved instead.<\/p>\n<h2>Tips and best practices<\/h2>\n<div style=\"background:#eef8f0;border-left:4px solid #2e9e5b;border-radius:8px;padding:14px 18px;margin:22px 0;line-height:1.6;\">&#127919; <strong>Best practice<\/strong><br \/>Share your referral link with people who have a genuine reason to want what you are recommending, and let the screening take care of the rest. Affiliates who build real audiences almost never notice fraud prevention exists &mdash; it is the shortcuts that trip it.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Use your own campaign links rather than reposting somebody else&rsquo;s.<\/strong> A link that traces cleanly back to you is far easier to defend if a referral is ever questioned.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Do not test your links by buying through them.<\/strong> Clicking your link to check it works is fine and harmless; completing a purchase through it will not pay you.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Never ask friends or family to place orders purely to generate commission.<\/strong> It is the fastest way to have referrals reversed, and repeated attempts put the account itself at risk.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Check your Referrals tab regularly rather than only around payout time.<\/strong> Questions are far easier to resolve while the order behind a referral is recent.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keep your own record of significant campaigns<\/strong> &mdash; where you shared a link and roughly when. If you ever need to demonstrate that a burst of traffic was genuine, that is the evidence that settles it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Read the terms of the programme once, properly.<\/strong> Most reversals come from arrangements the affiliate did not realise were prohibited, not from deliberate abuse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are still establishing how you share links in the first place, <a href=\"https:\/\/mymahotsav.com\/knowledgebase\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=9760\">Sharing Your Utsav Market Referral Code to Earn Credit<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mymahotsav.com\/knowledgebase\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=9239\">Registering as a vendor via an Utsav Affiliates referral link<\/a> both show what a clean, well-attributed referral looks like in practice.<\/p>\n<h2>Troubleshooting<\/h2>\n<h3>My referrals table lists more rows than my dashboard totals<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Cause:<\/strong> Pending referrals are shown in the Referrals table but are excluded from the summary counts and earnings figures on your dashboard landing page until they are confirmed. This is expected and is not a sign that anything was rejected. <strong>Fix:<\/strong> Treat the Referrals table as the complete list and the summary cards as the confirmed subtotal. As each Pending row is confirmed, the totals catch up on their own. <strong>Escalate if:<\/strong> a referral has sat at Pending for well over a month, or the order behind it clearly completed long ago.<\/p>\n<h3>I bought something through my own link and received no commission<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Cause:<\/strong> This is a self-referral, and it is blocked by design. The purchase completes normally; the commission simply is not recorded. <strong>Fix:<\/strong> None is needed &mdash; the platform is behaving correctly. Share the link with somebody else instead. <strong>Escalate if:<\/strong> the purchase was genuinely made by a different person on a different account and still produced no referral, as that points to a tracking issue rather than a fraud check.<\/p>\n<h3>My visits are climbing but no referrals are being recorded<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Cause:<\/strong> Most often this is ordinary conversion behaviour &mdash; people clicked but did not buy. It can also mean repeated clicks from the same device or network are being screened out, or that visitors are clearing cookies or switching devices before they buy. <strong>Fix:<\/strong> Compare your Visits tab against your Referrals tab over the same period, and check whether the traffic is concentrated in a very short window or coming from a narrow source. <strong>Escalate if:<\/strong> you have a confirmed order that you know came through your link, with a reference number, and no matching referral row exists.<\/p>\n<h3>A referral I believe is genuine has been rejected<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Cause:<\/strong> Either the order behind it was refunded or cancelled, or the referral did not pass a screening check. The dashboard shows the status but not the reason. <strong>Fix:<\/strong> Check first whether the customer cancelled or returned the order, since that is the most common explanation. If not, note the reference number, amount and date. <strong>Escalate if:<\/strong> the order stands and was placed by a genuine, unrelated customer &mdash; send those three details to support and ask for the referral to be reviewed.<\/p>\n<h2>FAQ<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q: What counts as a self-referral?<\/strong><br \/>A: Any purchase or sign-up you make yourself through your own referral link or code &mdash; including through a second account of your own. The order is processed as normal, but no commission is recorded against it. Arranging for someone else to order purely so you collect the fee is treated the same way on review.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: What happens if fraud is detected?<\/strong><br \/>A: The affected referral is rejected, which means it is not paid and does not count towards your unpaid or paid earnings. An isolated screened-out click needs no action from you at all. A sustained pattern is reviewed by a team member and, in serious cases, can lead to commissions being reversed or the affiliate account being suspended under the programme terms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: How do I report suspicious activity?<\/strong><br \/>A: Contact support directly &mdash; there is no report control in the affiliate dashboard. Include the reference number, date and amount of any referral involved, taken from your Referrals tab, so the team can find the exact record.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Do I need to install or switch on fraud prevention for my account?<\/strong><br \/>A: No. It is a platform-wide protection that is already active on every referral link, and there is no setting for it anywhere in your dashboard. The <a href=\"https:\/\/mymahotsav.com\/utsav-affiliates\/affiliate-dashboard\/settings\/\">Settings page<\/a> covers your payment email, payout preferences and custom link slug only.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Can a rejected referral be reinstated?<\/strong><br \/>A: Sometimes. If the rejection followed a refund or cancellation, it stands. If you believe a genuine referral was screened out in error, send the reference number, date and amount to support and ask for a review &mdash; a team member can restore a referral that turns out to be legitimate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Will fraud prevention block my genuine traffic?<\/strong><br \/>A: It should not. The screening is aimed at patterns that real audiences do not produce, so normal promotion &mdash; a post, a newsletter, a conversation &mdash; passes without you ever noticing. If you are planning something unusually large, such as a paid campaign that will send a great deal of traffic at once, it is worth telling support beforehand so the spike is expected.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mahi=\"context\">\nAlso asked as: how does Utsav Affiliates fraud prevention protect my referrals; what counts as a self-referral on Utsav Affiliates; why did I not get commission on my own purchase; why was my referral rejected; how do I report suspicious affiliate activity; does Utsav Affiliates check for invalid clicks; how do I turn on fraud prevention for my affiliate account; what happens if affiliate fraud is detected; why do my referral counts not match my referrals table; can a rejected referral be reinstated. Applies to: Utsav Affiliates &mdash; Affiliates module &mdash; Fraud Prevention &amp; Compliance (affiliate-facing). Where to find it: there is no fraud prevention page or setting; the protection is platform-wide and automatic. Evidence of it appears in the affiliate dashboard at https:\/\/mymahotsav.com\/utsav-affiliates\/affiliate-dashboard\/ (reached from the profile dropdown on the main site), specifically the Referrals tab and the Visits tab in the menu down the left-hand side. Canonical facts: fraud prevention screens clicks and referrals for self-referrals, repeated clicks from the same device or network, abnormal click bursts, throwaway or blocked sign-up addresses, and referrals with no genuine visit behind them. Affiliates cannot install, enable, disable, configure or whitelist anything &mdash; there is no fraud setting, no per-link control and no alerts or report panel in the dashboard; the Settings page at \/utsav-affiliates\/affiliate-dashboard\/settings\/ holds payment email, payout via store credit, referral notifications and custom affiliate slug only. Self-referrals never earn commission: the order completes normally but no referral is recorded. Referral statuses are Pending, Unpaid, Paid and Rejected; a rejected referral is not paid and is excluded from earnings. Pending referrals appear in the Referrals table but are excluded from the dashboard summary counts and earnings totals until confirmed, which is expected behaviour and the usual reason the table and the cards disagree. The Referrals table columns are Reference, Amount, Description, Status, Date and Lifetime Referral, and it is read-only &mdash; there is no per-row edit, cancel or status-change control. Screening does not guarantee a commission: a refunded or cancelled order still reverses a referral. Reporting suspicious activity is done by contacting support with the referral reference number, date and amount; there is no in-dashboard report button. Repeated or deliberate abuse can lead to reversed commissions or account suspension under the programme terms. This protection works alongside, not instead of, the wider platform protections and manual review. 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