2026 industry report

Fraud in rewarded advertising

How fraud is scaling globally (and what to do about it)

We scored 48.8 million sessions of rewarded-ad traffic across offerwalls and publishers to see how much of it is real, how fraud gets in, and what the industry can do to keep it out.

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Featured expert insights

“In rewarded ads, fraudsters pose as users to farm rewards. It's up to advertisers to catch it and claw it back - or better, to avoid getting ripped off in the first place.”

Dr. Augustine Fou

FouAnalytics

“Our job is to protect publishers from reversals, and the way you do that is by keeping fraud away from advertisers in the first place.”

Tanner Hanson

CEO, RevU

“We’d rather scale on quality than on volume, and the numbers back it up.”

Richard Moniz

Sr Director of Compliance, Reco Social

Stop paying rewards to fake users

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