Originally Posted by xxxuniversity

A while back I made a post about the absurdity of CCBill imposing strict KYC rules on affiliates. To be clear, CCBill is doing that for affiliate accounts, not just merchant accounts. One of the persons (Robbie) who responded to my post pointed out that if anybody should need to verify the source of the funds, it is the party that is making the disbursement, which would be CCBill. How does collecting my EIN/SSN, passport information, utility bill, driver's license, etc., curtail money laundering when, as an affiliate, I would be the one getting paid? How does CCBill prove the origin of the funds it's paying me by collecting information about......me? Furthermore, when CCBill collects all of that information, they now have enough information to open up an actual bank account in my name. It's the mass collection of such data that will facilitate identity theft, and identity theft usually goes together with other crimes and money laundering.

Well, the latest is Gammae / Fame Dollars has gone down the same path. I've been an affiliate of Fame Dollars for years. Suddenly, access to my affiliate account was blocked, and I was told that in order for me to have my affiliate account reinstated, they have implemented KYC rules and I need to go through some process of submitting documetnation. I read over the email from Gammae / Fame Dollars, and what I would have to do just to have an affiliate account is so absurd, I'm now officially done promoting Gammae / Fame Dollars sites.

This is getting to be ridiculous, not to mention dishonest. Just think. As an affiliate, you can go generate all sorts of traffic for other paysites, earning affiliate commission, and then the affiliate program just shuts down your account, freezes disbursements, and demands to audit you, telling you to provide all sorts of personal information which is completely unnecessary for them to LEGALLY pay affiliate commissions.

If I sit here and do this for each and every affiliate program, that's a lot of places that have a lot of unnecessary information that can be used to commit and carry out actual crimes. For this reason, I am now done promoting Gammae / Fame Dollars sites.