Fraud Review & Payouts

This page explains how enumerator rewards are paid and how the fraud review keeps Auto-mode forms honest.

How payouts work

In Auto mode, each attributed submission is paid individually:

• If the pool can cover it, the enumerator is Paid immediately, first-come first-served.
• If the pool is empty, it becomes Pending and joins a strict first-come, first-served queue. When you top up, the oldest Pending rewards are paid first; newer ones never jump ahead.

Each payout carries the same safeguards as respondent rewards: the cashable and deposited portions are split, and the deposited-funded portion is held under the normal chargeback-window release. So "Paid" means credited to the enumerator's wallet, with the withdrawable portion releasing on the next sweep, not instant cash.

In Manual mode nothing is paid on the platform. Attributions are Tracked for your counts and stats, and you settle off-platform.

Fraud review (Auto forms)

Forms are public and anonymous, so Auto-mode forms run a flag-don't-block review. Suspicious attributions are held (never paid automatically) and appear in a Needs review tab with the evidence, separate from your normal attributions.

We deliberately do not auto-reject on device or IP alone, because a real field enumerator legitimately collects many responses on one shared device, often on one carrier network. What gets flagged:

• Email-alias clustering - several submissions sharing an email base (like me+1@, me+2@).
• Cross-submission velocity - too many submissions from one device in a short window.
• Repeated device - only in Online collection style (in Field style this is expected and never flags on its own).

Device fingerprint is the primary signal; IP is shown as supporting evidence only and never flags by itself.

Clearing or confirming

For each flagged attribution you can:

• Clear - it re-enters the payout queue and is paid when the pool can cover it.
• Confirm fraud - it's rejected and never paid.

Clearing is your call because it's your pool. Opinyze admins keep a global view over all flagged and cleared attributions as a backstop.

Clawback

Rewards are only clawed back in cases of confirmed fraud (fake, bot, or duplicate submissions):

• The reward is reversed. If it was already spent or withdrawn, the shortfall is recorded against the enumerator's balance and recovered from future earnings.
• A legitimate refund (for example, closing your survey early) is never a clawback. The enumerator did real work and keeps it.
• In Manual mode there's nothing to claw back, so the attribution is simply excluded from your counts.

Exports

Your survey or form's attribution list can be reviewed on the Enumerators page, where you can see each attribution's status, reward, and (for flagged ones) the evidence used for review.