# Review Pending Referrals for Advocate
When you have turned on [Fraud Protection](https://help.impact.com/brand/what-would-you-like-to-learn-about/advocate-program/protect-your-advocate-program/advocate-fraud-protection-explained) with the *Moderate* setting, your Advocate program will flag and place into a pending state any referrals with a medium fraud score. Pending referrals must be manually approved or denied.
You can review and assess pending referrals from the referral feed or within individual participant profiles.
Referrals are only placed into a pending state after you turn on Fraud Protection for your Advocate account.
1. From the top navigation bar, select  **\[User profile] → Settings**.
2. From the *Advocate Settings* section, select **Security**.
3. Select  **\[Toggle on] Automatic fraud detection**.
Review pending referrals in the referral feed
Your referral feed displays a list of all referrals and their statuses. You can filter the feed to see only pending referrals that need your review.
1. From the left navigation menu, select **\[Engage] → Reporting → Referral Feed**.
2. From the first  **\[Drop-down menu]**, filter your *Referrals Feed* to **Pending Review**.
3. Hover your cursor over the referral you want to review and select **Review** to open the review panel.
* The review panel contains both participants’ information and a list of the reasons why the referral was flagged. You can decide whether you want to allow or deny it.
4. Select **Approve** or **Deny**.
5. Review the effects of this decision and select **Approve Referral** or **Deny Referral** to confirm your choice.
Review pending referrals on a participant’s profile
If you already know which participant has a pending referral, you can review it directly within their profile.
1. From the left navigation menu, select  **\[Engage] → Participants**.
2. In the search bar, type the name of the participant whose referrals you want to review.
3. Select their **name** to open their participant profile.
4. In the *Referrals* table on their profile, hover your cursor over the pending referral and select **Review**.
* The review panel contains both participants’ information and a list of the reasons why the referral was flagged. You can decide whether you want to approve or deny it.
5. Select **Approve** or **Deny**.
6. Review the effects of this decision and select **Approve Referral** or **Deny Referral** to confirm your choice.
Reverse an automated approval or denial
Depending on your [Fraud Protection settings](https://help.impact.com/brand/what-would-you-like-to-learn-about/advocate-program/protect-your-advocate-program/advocate-fraud-protection-explained), Advocate will automatically approve referrals with a low or medium fraud score and deny referrals with a high fraud score. You can reverse any automated decision manually if needed.
1. From the referral feed or the participant’s profile, find the automatically-processed referral that you want to reverse.
2. Hover your cursor over the referral and select **Review** to open the review panel.
3. Select **Approve Referral** or **Deny Referral**.
4. Review the effects of this decision and select **Approve Referral** or **Deny Referral** to confirm your choice.
#### Learn more
* [Design a Fraud-Proof Referral Program](https://help.impact.com/brand/what-would-you-like-to-learn-about/advocate-program/protect-your-advocate-program/design-a-fraud-proof-referral-program)
* [Advocate Fraud Protection Explained](https://help.impact.com/brand/what-would-you-like-to-learn-about/advocate-program/protect-your-advocate-program/advocate-fraud-protection-explained)
