1700 $ deduced from my revenue for "fraud" !!!

[Catfish]

This is related to the topic "stealing players from other affiliates".
PartyPoker has obviously started investigating players that have opened more than one account. There was a post about pokerstrategy, who quite openly encourage players by instructing them precisely on how to close their old accounts and open new ones (with their tracker of course). PartyPoker seems to have tolerated that, along with the obvious rakeback policy pokerstrategy has been practising. I wrote several emails about that to Party.
Now guess what : Now they investigated my account (it seems they did that with all the other accounts as well), and they accuse me of defrauding because I had "encouraged players to terminate their old accounts and create a new one", which I have never done !
IMO, if they allow a player to cancel his old account and create a new one, it's their problem ! After all, how could I know whether a player signing up with my bonus code has already had an account ? But now they put the blame on the affiliate, for a problem that they alone could have prevented.
As a matter of fact, I was told that they will deduce 1700 $ from my accruals until this sum is paid for .
This about closes it for me with Party. They tolerate pokerstrategy doing exactly this for months, if not years, and then they punish the small affiliates for bringing the topic up ? If they wanted to deduce all the revenues that pokerstrategy has made by stealing players from others, we'd be talking about six to seven figure amounts, but they will probably keep tolerating their stealing because PS is such a big affiliate !

[gogogators]

Can you explain exactly how this fraud charge was applied to you? Was it in your affiliate stats account (reducing your accrued MGR) or your affiliate cashier account (reducing the amount you get paid)? Has the POSITIVE amount due to you in May been applied to your affiliate cashier account (chipping away at that $1700)? Thanks in advance.

[Catfish]

actually I was told that they will "deduce the money from the affiliate MGR or hold back payment until 1700$ in accruals are reached". So far my account is still "under investigations", and I couldn't check it. Since my monthly accrual is usually lower than 1700 $, I will most probably not receive any MGR before the 1700 $ are accumulated.

What makes me most angry that as a reason for this they quote a clause that they have the right to hold back if the affiliate defrauds them (3.7 in the terms and conditions), thus accusing me of fraud ! IMO, they should have kept better control over their new sign-ins, checking names and adresses for double accounts, but that seems to have been too much work...