IP check fraud is a powerful tool for businesses and security professionals to use in order to reduce cyberattacks, hacking attempts and fraudulent activities that threaten the safety of customers’ personal information, accounts, devices and finances. This is achieved by combining various data points such as geolocation, ISP details and historical usage patterns to give a score that represents the likelihood of fraudulent activity.
IP Check for Fraud: Identifying Suspicious Activity
Fraudsters often hide their location by using virtual private networks or VPNs to mask their true identities, but this does not mean that they do not pose a risk to legitimate users. Depending on the score, companies can decide to allow, block or restrict website access automatically for a user based on whether they are using a residential or business ISP or if their Internet service provider is a public one such as those found in libraries or coffee shops.
Other factors that contribute to a user’s fraud score are if they have been involved in any form of abuse in the past, such as spamming or phishing. Additionally, if the user is behind a proxy or VPN it will have an impact on their score as these tend to be used by bad actors and bots to disguise their true identity online. In addition, if the user is blacklisted by any providers it will have a negative impact on their score. SEON has a manual search tool that provides data such as geolocation, ISP details, open ports, spam deny lists and more, but its API pricing allows up to 5,000 checks per month.…