# Fraud detection

Affiliate Marketing is a wonderful model and a trending marketing tactic to bring more sales to your store. Nonetheless, it also carries several risks like affiliate fraud, referral scam that may cause loss to your business. Understanding that, we have developed a tool that can help detect and prevent spam signups and sales. Let's take a glimpse at this feature to see how it works. 

To set up Fraud detection, please go to **Settings > Fraud detection**. 

There are 2 main purposes of Fraud protection as below. Kindly click the box to learn more details.

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Fraud protection - Affiliate signups</td><td></td><td></td><td><a href="fraud-protection/fraud-protection-afiliates-signups">fraud-protection-afiliates-signups</a></td></tr><tr><td>Fraud protection - Sales &#x26; commission</td><td></td><td></td><td><a href="fraud-protection/fraud-protection-sales-commission">fraud-protection-sales-commission</a></td></tr></tbody></table>


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```
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```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
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Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.