Originally Posted by
Alpha Golf
What I find myself wondering is how do they know how many referrals come off their sites? Do they just have to trust the cc companies to tell them?
I wouldn't trust a big bank to hold my used handkerchief.
That's pretty much how all affiliate marketing works, whether it's big banks, CJ, Amazon, or anyone else.
Sure, you put through strange orders or outliers every now and then as a way to check, but you can't really check. You have a cousin apply for some terrible card in a link hidden in a never-read post, and you make sure that shows on your report, but that's about as good as it gets.