The document presents a new method, Collaborative Contact-based Watchdog (CoCoWa), for detecting selfish nodes in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs), aiming to mitigate the impact of false positives and false negatives in detection systems. CoCoWa enhances efficiency by quickly disseminating information about selfish nodes when contacts occur between nodes, thus improving response time and precision. The paper also discusses existing challenges in the detection of selfish nodes, including issues with malicious behavior and high overhead due to flooding processes.