404ing specific affiliate inbound links

Bogus fraudulent traffic

[eljefe3]

So we've got some affiliates that it appears are using stolen CC's and forcing orders through our cart. They have been terminated, but their links still work.

Linking structure is like this:
http://www.example.com/pages/123.php
[where example.com is our domain]

where 123 represents the affiliates id. We need to be able to kill about 10 of these aff id's so it goes to a 404.

Any urgent help would be great, thanks. Our programmer is away on holiday.

[edited by: jdMorgan at 3:09 am (utc) on Sep. 15, 2008]
[edit reason] example.com [/edit]

[jdMorgan]

Is it true that <anything>.php will resolve as a "good" URL on your site?
How about <anything>.html?

The reasons I'm asking are that I suspect the answer to the first question is "yes," otherwise you wouldn't have this problem, and hopefully, the answer to the second question is "no," because you need to be able to rewrite the "bad" .php requests to a local URL-path on your server that does not exist if you want to generate a 404. If that's not the case, then you could generate a 410-Gone or 403-forbidden instead.

Jim

[eljefe3]

I ended up redirecting all bad numbers via cpanel, so all is good. Thanks Jim.