Fraud Prevention & Proxy Detection

Fake accounts, stolen payment details and automated traffic are all handled by one family of tools from IPQualityScore, known as IPQS. The company offers fraud prevention through real-time lookups via an API, with both free and paid tiers, and has been working on bot detection and fake-account prevention for more than ten years.

Scoring users and payments

The tools score data such as an IP address, device, email address, phone number or complete billing details, generating a fraud score along with more than 25 risk data points. A business can use these to filter risky users and payments in real time. Custom rules, behavior settings and scoring options let each company tune the system to its own tolerance for risk.

Tools in the suite

The services listed include bot detection, proxy and VPN detection, email validation and reputation scoring, phone number fraud scoring, mobile device fingerprinting, and a check against do-not-call and TCPA lists. They are aimed at preventing sign-up fraud, mobile app fraud, account takeover, chargebacks, click and affiliate fraud, scraping and credential stuffing.

How detection works

The company says it combines AI, blacklists, honeypots and traps, forensic analysis and machine learning. A networked approach called Fraud Fusion learns from a very large volume of transactions each day across every continent. Its site describes proprietary threat data from a honeypot network and claims better accuracy and fewer false positives than other vendors, which are its own comparisons.

Integration

The company says its tools integrate with any platform in minutes and aim to stop abuse without interrupting the experience of legitimate users, in any region or industry. A free trial is offered. Other areas the company lists on its pages include affiliate and ad fraud, and user and account validation, so the same scoring can be applied at sign-up, at checkout and across advertising traffic.

Fraud Prevention & Proxy Detection is the fraud screening service from IPQualityScore (IPQS). It scores IP addresses, devices, emails, phone numbers and payment details to spot risky users before they cause harm.

What Fraud Prevention & Proxy Detection does

• Proxy and VPN detection: flags traffic hiding behind proxies, VPNs and Tor.
• Bot detection: blocks automated behaviour, scraping and fake accounts.
• Email and phone checks: validity and reputation scoring.
• Device fingerprinting: tracks emulators, virtual devices and device switching.
• Transaction scoring: real-time fraud scores to catch chargebacks and account takeover.
• Threat intelligence: breach data, malicious links and feeds for SIEM, SOAR or firewalls.

Customers and markets

Businesses in any industry or region. Services are used through an API or bulk lookups.

Key facts

• Vendor: IPQualityScore
• Data source: its own honeypot network