Adsterra Just scammed me

Adsterra is running a textbook scam on publishers.

They happily let you work, drive traffic, and grow your balance right up to the $100 minimum payout. The moment you request your withdrawal, they instantly accuse you of "bot traffic," nuke your entire account, and wipe out every dollar you earned.

It’s not a coincidence it feels 100% deliberate.

They accept and monetize your traffic the whole time, then conveniently ban you the second you ask for your money. Even if some of your traffic wasn’t perfect, that’s not the real issue. The problem is they never warn you, never flag anything in real time, and keep profiting off it.

Then when it’s time to pay you… boom, account terminated.

I really feel like I got scammed Zero support, zero appeal, zero explanation. They won’t tell you what was supposedly wrong, which clicks were bad, or give you any proof. Just radio silence while they keep the money. This is some shady, straight-up scammy behavior.

Bottom line: Stay far away from Adsterra. There are way more trustworthy networks out there.

Most ads networks and affiliate networks check traffic before first payout. They can't check traffic for each and evey affiliates and publishers for make 0 or little money. That will be very unprofitable thing to do.
CJ checked my traffic before paying first 100$ and asked me to clarify the traffic source before clearing the payment. It's not abnormal or uncommon thing to happen.
Contact their support raise a support ticket.
If you did traffic arbitrage then it's a bot traffic.
For organic traffic you must use a bot blocker and firewall plugin on your website.