Trackier provides a built-in anti-fraud tool that can help you tackle fraud traffic issues and help you keep relations with your advertisers intact, save your money, and keep your business healthy.


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Trackier has built-in analytics and reports specifically for monitoring the fraud traffic. Trackier also gives you the option to take the necessary action on such traffic as well.


Where to find it?

  • Click on Automation>> Anti-Fraud Tools >> Config.



Once you click on 'Config' you will be redirected to the page where you will be able to set the constraints(if any) and set multiple rules and actions for them.



Adding Fraud Rule for Trackier Anti Fraud

  • You will be redirected to the 'Manage Fraud Rules' page, where you will be able to manage all the previously created rules for your campaigns. Find the Action button at the top right to set the fraud rules.




Filter Setup

  • Setup filters will allow you to add certain targeting to your rules based on the advertisers, publishers or campaigns. 



1. Name - Set the name for your rule.

2. Scope - This will allow you to select whether you want to check the fraud data only for clicks, conversions or both of them.

3. Choose Advertisers - This option will allow you to include or exclude advertisers specifically for the rule.

4. Choose Campaigns - This option will allow you to include or exclude campaigns specifically for the rule.

5. Choose Publishers - This option will allow you to include or exclude publishers specifically for the rule.


It is mandatory to give your rule a name, otherwise you will not be able to move on to next step.



Setup Restrictions

  • Basic restrictions will be the main step where you will see the multiple rules that you want to apply to the campaigns that are running live. Find the description of each and every rule mentioned in the screenshot below.




1. DataCenter Traffic Block - We maintain a database of data centre IP address (like AWS, GCP, etc) ranges since many bot networks will use data centres to create or proxy traffic, and through this, you can block that and even track that which publisher is sending fraud traffic. For example, a session from within Amazon’s AWS data centre address block is unlikely to be valid. 

2. Proxy Traffic Block - These are the list of Proxy Types we can detect and can block the IP addresses associated with these Proxy types. We maintain a real-time database of public web proxies so we can detect sessions from them. So that no proxy traffic conversion gets validated.

3. Blacklist IP Block - In this, all the blacklisted IP by different ISP blocking all Conversions from IP addresses known to perpetrate fraud, as well as anonymous IP addresses.

4. Unknown Device Block - In this, all the crawlers, emulator type devices are blocked, we maintain the pattern and accordingly block the conversion from this type of traffic.

5. Block Empty Device ID - This option rejects all the clicks coming from devices without GAID/IDFA. IOS 14 and above will not be checked for this rule.

6. Validate Device ID - If this rule is enabled, all the clicks coming from devices with Invalid GAID/IDFA will get rejected. IOS 14 and above will not be checked for this rule.

7. Unique IP Conversion - If you will enable this rule, you will see that only one conversion will get recorded through one IP. Multiple conversions from the same IP or the same subnet of the IP will be blocked. We do have the option now for Conversion IP as well.



Setup CTIT Rules

CTIT Rule is a bit different from the rules that are set in the previous step. A particular condition is required to get fulfilled to take any action out of this rule. Find the description of this rule in the below image.



  • CTIT Rule(Click To Install Time or conversion time)- This helps you in case a bot is filling the form or installing an APK, so you can set time with conditional logic and if the conversion is less than or greater than the time set, then that conversion and goal associated with that click id will get cancelled.
  • In case you want to apply this CTIT rule to all the goals except 1 or 2, You can do that as well by mentioning the goal you wish to exclude.
  • In case you want to cancel all conversions from the blocked click ID list you can tick on the box for the same.


Setup ITET Rule

  • ITET rule i.e. Install to event time through which you explicitly mention the desired time between install and event post which any conversion will be marked as fraud and hence will be rejected
  • Mention the goal and event name along with the condition that you want to apply and time in seconds, minutes, hours or days. 
  • For instance, if you provide "Default Goal" as install and “Demo purchase” as event and applied the logic of greater than and value is less than 5 sec, that means if the conversion time between these two goals is more than 5 sec it will be marked as fraud and rejected by ITET rule


Setup Action

  • The final step in setting up the fraud rule is to set an action for the fraud traffic that is accumulated. As mentioned at the beginning of this article, Trackier provides you the option to set the course of action for the fraud traffic that is recorded. 
  • You can either allow the Fraud traffic or you can block the fraud traffic.




Once the rule is set, you can access the reports and analytics part of the fraud tools easily to check the performance of the campaigns and publishers.


To know more about reports and analytics, give read this article.