Bing Cashback Tracking Pixel: Misuse and fraud possible?
Samir from Bountii.com posted some alarming information about the tracking pixel used by many Bing Cashback merchants.
I strongly suggest merchants who use the tracking pixel read his post carefully.
Samir suggests that it is possible to send fake transaction data to Bing, resulting in unjustified Bing Cashback rebates to the fraudulent account.
By doing so, a con artist might also "preuse" a merchant’s order IDs. If the merchant’s order system would at some later point use that ID to declare a regular cashback purchase to Bing, Bing would have gotten the same ID twice. This would perhaps result in Bing rejecting the legitimate order (and the customer not getting their Cashback rebate).
It will be interesting to see whether and how Microsoft will react to this thesis.
Samir has also announced to talk about other possible flaws of the Bing Cashback system in the near future.
