Fraud Prevention & Risk Review Policy

Effective Date: 2026

Last Updated: 2026

This Fraud Prevention & Risk Review Policy explains how fraud prevention, risk reviews, suspicious activity checks, identity risk, payment risk, account abuse, seller risk, creator risk, advertiser risk, wallet risk, payout risk, chargeback risk, and platform integrity reviews may work on Playflick.com, operated by Playflick™ Media .ltd.

This policy should be read together with our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Payments & Billing Terms, Account Balance & Ledger Policy, Chargeback & Payment Dispute Policy, Creator Payout Policy, Creator Verification Policy, Anti-Spam & Platform Manipulation Policy, Security Policy & Responsible Disclosure, Sanctions & Restricted Countries Policy, and Account Suspension & Termination Policy.


1. Who We Are

Operator: Playflick™ Media .ltd

Website: https://playflick.com

Business Address:
41 Norman Avenue
London
N22 5ES
United Kingdom

Risk and Support Email: hello@playflick.com
Contact Page: https://playflick.com/contact-us


2. Purpose of This Policy

Playflick uses fraud prevention and risk review processes to help protect users, creators, viewers, advertisers, sellers, rights holders, payment providers, and the platform.

This policy explains:

  • Why Playflick may review accounts, payments, payouts, content, or activity
  • What types of fraud and abuse may be reviewed
  • Why holds, restrictions, or additional checks may apply
  • How suspicious activity may affect access to features
  • How users may contact Playflick about a risk review

3. Fraud Prevention Reviews

Playflick may review activity that appears suspicious, fraudulent, abusive, manipulated, unsafe, unlawful, or inconsistent with normal platform use.

Reviews may involve:

  • Account activity
  • Payment activity
  • Wallet activity
  • Creator payout activity
  • Advertising activity
  • Marketplace or storefront activity
  • Gift card or promo code activity
  • Referral activity
  • Upload activity
  • Login and security activity
  • Reports from users, payment providers, or third parties

4. Activity That May Trigger Review

Risk review may be triggered by activity such as:

  • Unusual login patterns
  • Repeated failed payments
  • High refund or chargeback rates
  • Large or unusual wallet top-ups
  • Suspicious payout changes
  • Multiple accounts using similar details
  • Use of stolen or suspicious payment methods
  • Fake engagement or bot activity
  • Suspicious referral or promo code use
  • Unusual advertiser spending patterns
  • Reports of scams, phishing, or impersonation
  • Attempted evasion of sanctions or restricted-country rules

5. Account Risk Reviews

Playflick may review accounts where account behaviour suggests fraud, abuse, evasion, compromise, impersonation, or platform risk.

Account risk reviews may consider:

  • Account creation history
  • Login history
  • Device and browser signals
  • IP and network signals
  • Email verification status
  • Identity or business verification status
  • Payment and payout records
  • Prior enforcement history
  • Linked accounts or related activity
  • User reports or third-party reports

6. Payment Risk Reviews

Playflick may review payments, purchases, subscriptions, wallet top-ups, advertising charges, marketplace purchases, supporter payments, or paid content transactions for fraud and risk.

Payment risk reviews may consider:

  • Payment method validity
  • Bank or card issuer responses
  • Payment-provider risk signals
  • Chargeback history
  • Refund history
  • Transaction amount
  • Transaction frequency
  • Country or currency mismatch
  • Unusual device or login activity
  • Suspicious purchase patterns

7. Payout Risk Reviews

Playflick may review creator, seller, advertiser, or business payouts before releasing funds.

Payout risk reviews may involve:

  • Identity verification
  • Business verification
  • Tax information checks
  • Bank or payout method checks
  • Sanctions screening
  • Fraud review
  • Chargeback risk review
  • Refund risk review
  • Rights or ownership disputes
  • Policy compliance review

Payouts may be delayed, held, adjusted, reversed, or refused where risk concerns exist.


8. Wallet, Credits, and Promo Risk

Playflick may review wallet balances, gift cards, promo codes, vouchers, referral credits, account credits, and promotional value for misuse or fraud.

Risk concerns may include:

  • Stolen gift cards
  • Unauthorised code resale
  • Code guessing or code generation
  • Multiple fake accounts redeeming codes
  • Suspicious wallet top-ups
  • Chargebacks after credits are spent
  • Referral abuse
  • Promotional credit misuse

9. Creator and Seller Risk

Creators, sellers, marketplace users, storefront operators, and paid content providers may be reviewed for fraud, payment abuse, rights abuse, delivery abuse, or misleading activity.

Creator or seller risk may include:

  • Misleading paid content
  • Fake services or products
  • Failure to deliver purchased items
  • Counterfeit or infringing goods
  • Suspicious payout patterns
  • High refund or chargeback rates
  • Fake reviews or fake engagement
  • Use of stolen content or unauthorised rights

10. Advertiser Risk

Playflick may review advertiser accounts, campaigns, billing activity, ad credits, business details, landing pages, and payment methods for fraud and risk.

Advertiser risk may include:

  • Misleading ads
  • Unsafe landing pages
  • Phishing or malware links
  • Suspicious ad spend
  • Failed payments or chargebacks
  • Fake business information
  • Attempts to evade ad review
  • Promotion of prohibited goods or services

11. Fake Identity and Misrepresentation

Users must not provide false, misleading, forged, stolen, or unauthorised identity, business, tax, payment, or payout information.

Prohibited identity misuse includes:

  • Using another person’s identity without permission
  • Using fake documents
  • Using stolen business details
  • Misrepresenting company ownership
  • Providing false tax information
  • Using payment methods without permission
  • Creating accounts to evade enforcement
  • Impersonating Playflick, creators, brands, or businesses

12. Account Compromise and Security Risk

If Playflick detects or suspects account compromise, unauthorised access, stolen credentials, suspicious login activity, or unusual account changes, Playflick may take protective action.

Protective action may include:

  • Requiring password reset
  • Requiring email verification
  • Requiring additional identity checks
  • Restricting payments or payouts
  • Restricting account settings changes
  • Temporarily limiting uploads, comments, messages, or purchases
  • Notifying the account holder where appropriate

13. Holds and Delays

Playflick may place holds or delays on payments, payouts, balances, wallet credits, creator earnings, advertiser credits, marketplace funds, paid content revenue, or account features during risk review.

Holds may remain until Playflick completes checks or receives required information.

Holds may be extended where risk, legal, payment-provider, sanctions, chargeback, refund, security, or policy concerns remain unresolved.


14. Information Requests

During a risk review, Playflick may request additional information.

Requested information may include:

  • Identity verification details
  • Business verification details
  • Tax information
  • Proof of payment authorisation
  • Proof of content rights
  • Proof of product or service delivery
  • Explanation of unusual account activity
  • Updated payout or billing details

Failure to provide requested information may result in continued restrictions, refused payments, withheld payouts, or account action.


15. Automated and Manual Review

Playflick may use automated systems, manual review, third-party provider checks, user reports, payment-provider signals, security tools, and other risk controls to detect and review suspicious activity.

Automated systems may make mistakes. Users may contact Playflick if they believe a review or restriction was applied incorrectly.


16. Third-Party Risk Providers

Playflick may work with third-party providers for payment processing, fraud detection, identity verification, sanctions screening, security monitoring, analytics, advertising review, and platform integrity.

These providers may apply their own rules, checks, limitations, privacy practices, and risk assessments.


17. Restricted Countries and Sanctions

Playflick may restrict accounts, payments, payouts, advertising, creator tools, marketplace features, or access where sanctions, restricted-country rules, export controls, payment-provider rules, or legal requirements apply.

Users must not attempt to bypass such restrictions using false information, VPNs, proxies, fake documents, third-party accounts, or unauthorised payment methods.


18. Fraudulent or Invalid Activity

Fraudulent or invalid activity is prohibited.

Examples include:

  • Stolen payment methods
  • Fake purchases
  • Fake subscriptions
  • Fake refunds or chargebacks
  • Fake engagement
  • Fake accounts
  • Fake identity documents
  • Money laundering or attempted money laundering
  • Using Playflick to move funds deceptively
  • Manipulating creator or advertiser payments

19. Balance Adjustments and Reversals

If Playflick identifies fraud, invalid activity, payment reversals, overpayments, incorrect credits, or suspicious transactions, Playflick may adjust balances.

Adjustments may include:

  • Removing wallet credits
  • Removing promotional credits
  • Reducing creator earnings
  • Reducing seller balances
  • Reducing advertiser balances
  • Reversing payouts where permitted
  • Creating or increasing negative balances
  • Offsetting amounts against future earnings or credits

20. Risk Review Outcomes

A risk review may result in different outcomes depending on the facts and available information.

Outcomes may include:

  • No action
  • Request for more information
  • Temporary account hold
  • Payment or payout hold
  • Balance adjustment
  • Feature restriction
  • Content, ad, or listing removal
  • Refund, reversal, or cancellation
  • Account suspension or termination
  • Reporting or cooperation with appropriate authorities where required or appropriate

21. User Responsibility

Users are responsible for keeping account, payment, payout, tax, business, and contact information accurate and secure.

Users should:

  • Use only authorised payment methods
  • Keep login credentials secure
  • Use accurate identity and business information
  • Respond to legitimate Playflick support requests
  • Review billing and balance records
  • Report unauthorised activity promptly
  • Avoid suspicious offers, scams, or off-platform payment requests

22. No Disclosure of Detection Methods

To protect users and platform integrity, Playflick may not disclose all fraud detection methods, risk rules, review signals, thresholds, provider tools, or investigation details.

This helps prevent bad actors from bypassing fraud prevention systems.


23. Reports About Fraud or Risk

Users may report suspected fraud, scams, payment abuse, fake accounts, impersonation, suspicious storefronts, fake services, fake ads, referral abuse, or account compromise.

Contact:

Email: hello@playflick.com
Contact Page: https://playflick.com/contact-us

Please include:

  • The account, content, listing, payment, ad, or transaction involved
  • A clear explanation of the issue
  • Any screenshots, receipts, links, messages, or supporting evidence
  • Whether payment abuse, account compromise, phishing, or child-safety concerns are involved

Do not send passwords, full payment card numbers, bank passwords, or one-time login codes.


24. Enforcement

Playflick may take action where fraud, risk, suspicious activity, or platform abuse is identified or reasonably suspected.

Enforcement may include:

  • Requesting verification or additional information
  • Restricting payments or payouts
  • Restricting wallet, credits, or gift cards
  • Restricting purchases, subscriptions, or paid content access
  • Restricting creator, seller, marketplace, or advertiser features
  • Removing content, ads, listings, or links
  • Withholding, reversing, or adjusting balances
  • Suspending or terminating accounts
  • Preserving records for legal, safety, fraud, payment, or moderation reasons

25. Appeals

If your account, payment, payout, balance, wallet, credit, ad, listing, content, or feature access was restricted after a risk review and you believe Playflick made a mistake, you may request a review under our Appeals Policy where available.

Contact:

Email: hello@playflick.com

Please include:

  • Your account email
  • The affected account, payment, payout, balance, content, listing, ad, or feature
  • The decision you are appealing
  • Why you believe the decision was incorrect
  • Any supporting verification, payment, rights, delivery, or account-security information

Do not send passwords, full payment card numbers, bank passwords, or one-time login codes.


26. Privacy and Data Retention

Playflick may process and retain fraud signals, risk review records, payment records, payout records, wallet records, verification records, device and browser signals, IP and network signals, account records, support messages, reports, appeals, enforcement records, and third-party provider responses.

These records may be retained for fraud prevention, payment disputes, security, legal compliance, audits, moderation, appeals, account protection, and platform integrity.

More information is available in our Privacy Policy, Data Retention Policy, and Evidence Preservation Policy.


27. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Fraud Prevention & Risk Review Policy from time to time.

Changes may reflect new fraud risks, payment-provider rules, wallet features, creator payout tools, advertiser tools, marketplace features, verification tools, security practices, legal requirements, or platform updates.

Your continued use of Playflick after changes become effective means you agree to the updated policy.


28. Contact Us

For fraud reports, risk review questions, payment holds, payout holds, account security concerns, appeal requests, or policy enquiries, contact:

Playflick™ Media .ltd
41 Norman Avenue
London
N22 5ES
United Kingdom

Risk and Support Email: hello@playflick.com
Contact Page: https://playflick.com/contact-us
Website: https://playflick.com


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