How do I report affiliate spammers?

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I've noticed that in any question that refers to a physical product, there are always affiliate spammers that reply with a generic off-topic answer that doesn't really answer the question that was asked -- they just want to get their link into the answer so people click on them. This just adds "noise" to yahoo answers, and I find it to be annoying.

The  most common one appears to be Amazon's affiliate program. Although I report these users to Yahoo when they answer one of my questions, is there a way to report them to Amazon? I figure that reporting them to Yahoo does no good -- they just open a new account, but making them forfeit their Amazon Affiliate account and open a new one will make it more painful for them.

I didn't see any obvious affiliate abuse reporting URL on Amazon's site.

Yahzmin ♥♥ 4ever · Accepted Answer

It may not be possible. I have a similar situation; I sell on craft site and I see a number of sellers from there posting spam links to their shop pages here on YA. I report them, they get removed - and come back with new accounts. When I posted on the craft site asking what, if anything, I could do about this, not only was I told there was NOTHING I could do - my posting was removed by THEIR staff as improper. They say that they can only control their OWN site and not what their users do on other sites. Amazon may feel the same way and refuse to sanction their affiliates. 

Some possibilities:
https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/contact?ie=UTF8&subject=
That is the 'contact us' form for Amazon Affiliates. Maybe you can use it to report?

This is seems to be a reporting page if you think an Associate is not behaving properly. That may be more appropriate to your issue:
https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/help/t15/a7?ie=UTF8&pf_rd_t=501&ref_=amb_link_126313_11&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=&pf_rd_s=assoc-center-2&pf_rd_r=&pf_rd_i=assoc_help_t15

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Anonymous · Answer

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Regards

giffin · Answer

Amazon Phishing Reporting

Currawong · Answer

I just reported one to Amazon via their online chat.

Go to their contact page here: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/contact?ie=UTF8&pf_rd_t=501&ref_=amb_link_131181_1&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=&pf_rd_s=assoc-center-1&pf_rd_r=&pf_rd_i=assoc_help_t15_a7

If it is within their chat hours, open up a chat and say that you'd like to report an associate for a violation. Ignore their request for an account email etc. If you run a site, leave one of the spam comments or posts visible and give them the link to it. They will take a screenshot or whatever and report it, then you can delete it.

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