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Online Fraud Detection

Case Study: Reducing Chargebacks Using the minFraud Service

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The Team at MaxMind
May 4, 2016

Thexyz, a Canadian company, provides a secure email service. This paid platform gives customers an email address that is secure and private while keeping the user experience ad-free. Introducing the…

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Online Fraud Detection

Behind the Scenes: High Risk Shipping Addresses

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Miguel Atienza
April 4, 2016

Just like good customers, fraudsters must provide a shipping address in order to receive merchandise. But fraudsters, who need to evade detection and efficiently resell stolen goods, leave traces in…

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IP Geolocation and Network DataOnline Fraud Detection

How to recognize legitimate proxy use and reduce false positives during order review

by
Miguel Atienza
March 4, 2016

As a merchant, you’ll frequently see cases where multiple orders with different billing addresses and payment methods are placed from the same IP address, and it’s not clear whether or not this…

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Online Fraud Detection

Case Study: Using Historical Transaction Data to Reduce Chargebacks

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Miguel Atienza
January 4, 2016

The new year has arrived. With transaction history from a busy holiday season on hand, this is a great time to take a look your historical transactions with a fresh and critical eye. Reviewing your…

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IP Geolocation and Network Data

How to Protect Your Streaming Content from VPN & Proxy Traffic

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Olaf Alders
October 29, 2015

As more and more TV, music, and movie content has moved online, a veritable industry has grown up around helping people to circumvent location based broadcast restrictions. Demonstrating the scale of…

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IP Geolocation and Network Data

Building Your Own MMDB Database for Fun and Profit

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The Team at MaxMind
September 29, 2015

September 2020 Update We've got a new post that deals with writing MMDB files using the Go programming language . And now back to our article... If you use a GeoIP database, you're probably familiar…

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