Affiliate marketing is one such a very common thing that is being adopted in the internet. If you could do a search for any such program you could end up in so many affiliate programs, in variety of fields. The most would be the health affiliate program in which the affiliate is required to either sell their health products or to bring in more customers to the company who could buy that product from them. But not all these affiliate programs are genuine and only very few of them pay the promised amount to their affiliates after getting the reference from them and many other companies would not provide the reward amount as they promised and they would fake their affiliates.
Since no one knows the physical identity of the person running that program, this fraud has become very common in the internet. So, it is always better for the users who are willing to join any such programs to clearly enquire about the program and read as much reviews as possible about the program and then decide to join the program. Even though it is an easy way to make money it is highly important to choose the right program to avoid being faked by the company.