Behind the Scenes: High Risk Shipping Addresses
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 …
How to recognize legitimate proxy use and reduce false positives during order review
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 …
Case Study: Using Historical Transaction Data to Reduce Chargebacks
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 …
How to Protect Your Streaming Content from VPN & Proxy Traffic
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 …
Building Your Own MMDB Database for Fun and Profit
Deprecation Notice
We have deprecated the Perl writer discussed in this article. It is no longer
developed or supported. We encourage you to use our
Go github.com/maxmind/mmdbwriter module
instead. …
Manual Review Best Practices: Get More Data for a More Informed Decision
Thus far, our Best Practices Series has discussed how you can use the data provided by the minFraud service for better decision making during manual review.
But actionable data from minFraud starts …