Originally Posted by
universal4
#1 Just the fact that you are planning to accept deposits that are RELATED to gambling, as well as a gambling domain automatically places the person in the United States in jeopardy of having issues with their PP account.
There are a number of affiliates that can tell stories of PP closing accounts for being used in connection with others concerning gambling domains, links etc that did not have anything to do with actual gambling. (You will be accepting payments for connections to gambling related activities)
#2 Bots are only a portion of the click fraud.
It is good to know that you have already taken multiple use of the same ip into consideration concerning fraud, but those that would purchase paid clicks do so in order to circumvent this.
The pay-to-click people actually pay people to perform the captcha and click so just having the captcha alone is not enough.
Multiple signups have nothing to do really with visitor click fraud. There is a long history that Pay-to-click advertisers have been dealing with click fraud, and it goes back many years even to the days of "Find What and 7 Search" as well as others. Google actually sees a little bit of it, although they do a much better job with cookies etc....(although I have heard stories where their links are part of the email stuff although policed a little better)
So if I have a link that I will earn $5 per click from and I pay one of the pay to read and click email mailers for 1000 for, how do you plan on determining and stopping that? The email readers and clickers will have ip addresses from all over the world, they will be unique as they only get paid for unique emails and unique clicks, and of course it is not valid traffic in any way, but it will appear to be valid unique traffic.
#3 Any casino that takes the paid-to-signup traffic and has anything in their terms about not allowing incentivised traffic would be breaking their own terms. Whether affiliates actually get away with this is a different story, but most programs have the term since most have found over the years that anyone that is "paid" to sign up is not very high quality.
Not sure why quoting refer-a-friend terms would be quoted, but I would think affiliates would not be using your service for such referrals.
Rick
Universal4
Edited to add:
I do not recall if you stated other ways people can make deposits, since most would not be able to use a credit card unless you have an actual merchant account that is NOT connected to the gambling domain, since Visa and Mastercard would have a problem with it.