# Fraud detection

You can choose to **allow** or **prevent** commissions when certain conditions are detected.

You have to move to **Settings > General**

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We offer four types of **Fraud protection**:

* **Same Affiliate and Customer email address**\
  Prevent commissions if the affiliate and customer share the same email address, which commonly indicates self-referrals.
* **Same Affiliate and Customer IP address**\
  Block commissions when the affiliate and customer place an order from the same IP address.
* **Same Affiliate and Customer first and last name**\
  Detect and prevent commissions when the affiliate and customer have matching names.
* **Referral sales via Google Ads**\
  Prevent commissions for orders generated through Google Ads traffic if you do not allow affiliates to run paid ads.

When a conversion is automatically denied by Fraud Protection, it will appear in the Conversions list with a **Denied** status. You can hover over to see the specific reason the order was blocked

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