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Advertising can be a way to increase sales as well as a source of fraud.<\/p>\n\n<p>Fraud resulting from unsavory affiliate marketing techniques increases the likelihood of chargebacks and revenue loss.<\/p>\n\n<p>Our <strong>Affiliate Fraud Alerts<\/strong> helps merchants identify campaign threats before they become liabilities.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Affiliate Fraud Causes Chargebacks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>There are two primary affiliate fraud techniques that can lead to chargebacks:<\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>Using stolen credit card information to facilitate illegitimate affiliate sales.<\/em><\/strong>\nWhen the cardholder learns of the unauthorized transaction and files a chargeback, the merchant becomes the victim.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>Perpetrating a bait-and-switch.<\/em><\/strong>\nUnscrupulous affiliates will make promises the merchant can?t keep. When consumers learned they?ve been duped, they file chargebacks.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Chargebacks911?s Affiliate Fraud Alerts<\/strong> are designed to detect and prevent the most commonly perpetrated forms of affiliate fraud.<\/p>\n\n<p>A Word of Warning: Even if your business isn?t experiencing affiliate fraud-induced chargebacks, your profitability is still in grave danger. There are different types of affiliate fraud?some result in chargebacks and some don?t. Even if these transactions aren?t disputed, the fraud can still destroy your business by stealing revenue and profits.<\/p>\n\n<p>Let <strong>Chargebacks911<\/strong> show you how <strong>Affiliate Fraud Alerts<\/strong> can protect your bottom line from all types of revenue-stealing fraud.<\/p>\n\n<p>The purpose of this Wordpress plugin is to load a current copy of the AFS javascript file, located on an AFS server,\nenabling the Affiliate Fraud Shield alert system on your website.<\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<p><strong>It is VERY IMPORTANT to understand that you cannot use this plugin without having previously obtained an API KEY\nfrom Global Risk Technologies.  Although you may install this plugin and activate it, until you have a working\nAPI KEY (and another setting called API TYPE), it will not do anything.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Upload the plugin files to the <code>\/wp-content\/plugins\/afs-loader<\/code> directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.<\/li>\n<li>Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' screen in WordPress or when prompted during installation<\/li>\n<li>Use the AFS API Key screen to store your API Key and API Type.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt>What is **Affiliate Fraud Shield?**<\/dt>\n<dd><p>Online advertising can mean life or death for an e-commerce merchant. Advertising can be a way to increase sales as well as a source of fraud.<\/p>\n\n<p>Fraud resulting from unsavory affiliate marketing techniques increases the likelihood of chargebacks and revenue loss.<\/p>\n\n<p>Our <strong>Affiliate Fraud Alerts?<\/strong> helps merchants identify campaign threats before they become liabilities.<\/p>\n\n<p>Please visit https:\/\/chargebacks911.com\/affiliate-fraud-shield for more information<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt>How do I get an API Key?<\/dt>\n<dd><p>Call 877-634-9808 or visit our web page for more information.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt>What does the AFS-Loader plugin do?<\/dt>\n<dd><p>When a customer orders a product from your website, information about the sale is transmitted to a database where it is\nstored for analysis. The customer's payment information is stripped so that it does not include the security code, \nexpiration date, or full card number.<\/p>\n\n<p>Using this information, AFS will detect and prevent the most commonly perpetrated forms of affiliate fraud which can lead\nto chargebacks and forteited processing rights.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt>How does the AFS-Loader plugin work?<\/dt>\n<dd><p>The plugin is a generic loader which links to the same public javascript file located here:<\/p>\n\n<pre><code>https:\/\/afs.chargebacks911.com\/js\/shield.js\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n<p>When this script is loaded, Wordpress passes your API KEY and API TYPE to the script. When your API Key is assigned, our \ndevelopers will review your website and determine which \"Type\" of operation will be necessary to capture your order data,\nor to create a new \"Type\" that only applies to you.<\/p>\n\n<p>When a customer comes to your website and makes a purchase request, in most cases they will fill in an order form or\npass through a succession of order forms which collect the order data, customer, shipping and payment information.<\/p>\n\n<p>At checkout, a copy of this information (without the card security code, expiration date, or full card number) is\ntransmitted to the Affiliate Fraud Shield API.<\/p>\n\n<p>This information is then analyzed to detect suspicious activity that may lead to chargebacks or other problems, and\nyou can be notified before fulfilling the sale.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n<!--section=changelog-->\n<p>Nov 15, 2016 added to directory<\/p>","raw_excerpt":"Detect fraud and increase the profitability of Affiliate Marketing by identifying campaign threats before they become liabilities","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/52091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52091"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/globalrisk"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=52091"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=52091"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=52091"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=52091"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=52091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}