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  • Stop and Prevent Spam Bots From Disrupting Your Site

    Stop and Prevent Spam Bots From Disrupting Your Site

    One of the hallmarks of a successful product, marketplace, or community is a large user base. It is important for the growth and survival of your platform, but the problem…

  • How to Identify and Prevent Promo Abuse Fraud in eCommerce

    How to Identify and Prevent Promo Abuse Fraud in eCommerce

    Offering new compelling promotions can be an incredibly effective way to acquire new customers, especially for companies whose customers offer a high lifetime value. This could take the form of…

  • The Unique Challenges of Marketplace Risk Assessment & Management

    The Unique Challenges of Marketplace Risk Assessment & Management

    Digital commerce has evolved into much more than just buying and selling on a website. Marketplaces—platforms that directly connect buyers and sellers—are springing up in nearly every industry. Marketplace startups…

  • Learn Best Practices for Graph-Based Identity Databases

    Learn Best Practices for Graph-Based Identity Databases

    Determining the legitimacy or risk of the identities behind a transaction during manual review can require multiple internal and external tools. The process is investigative by nature from basic checks…

  • Going Beyond Transactional Fraud With Identity Data

    Going Beyond Transactional Fraud With Identity Data

    Typically, merchants use identity data to prevent transactional fraud and use real-time identity verification in order to keep fraudsters from making a purchase. But lately, we’ve seen a trend among…

  • False Positives Wedge Merchants Between a Rock and a Hard Place

    False Positives Wedge Merchants Between a Rock and a Hard Place

    There’s a fine line between writing fraud prevention rules so tight that they catch all fraud, and ensuring that legitimate customers have a good experience. False positives, (aka “false declines”…

  • 3 Ways to Prevent eGift Card Fraud

    3 Ways to Prevent eGift Card Fraud

    As technology has advanced, it has become evident that even the online retailers that have fraud almost entirely in control still wrestle with losses from eGift card fraud. Many retailers…

  • Four Key Tips for International Data Sourcing

    Four Key Tips for International Data Sourcing

    While the post on Tips for Selecting the best Data Vendor is as relevant as ever, there are unique considerations with international data. While Ekata has is a global company…

  • De Facto Key to Digital Identity: Phone Validation

    De Facto Key to Digital Identity: Phone Validation

    Validating phone number data helps merchants prevent fraudulent orders, speed good customers to clear, and avoid social engineering. Within a layered fraud prevention approach, phone data provides actionable signals for…

  • Part 3: Know Your Data, Measure Your Data, Judge Your Data

    Part 3: Know Your Data, Measure Your Data, Judge Your Data

    Previous articles in this series covered the richness and completeness of data, this final article will discuss the third key to good identity verification data; accuracy.  Accuracy can be the…

  • 7 Tips for Selecting the Best Data Vendor

    7 Tips for Selecting the Best Data Vendor

    As a professional data buyer at Whitepages, there are a number of things I look for when researching and evaluating a new data source for one of our products. The…

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