IPQS Articles & Resources

15 Oct '23

Device Fingerprinting Fraud Detection: The Essential Tool for 2023

Device fingerprinting is the best solution to enhance fraud detection accuracy for any website or app. Device fingerprinting techniques allow identification of malicious users, suspicious activity, and even bad bots.

01 Sep '23

Committing Fraud With RDP Connections - Does Device Fingerprinting Work?

Cybercriminals are getting smarter and using RDP connections to cloak themselves from threat detection systems. Does that make device fingerprinting useless?

03 Aug '23

Understanding Account Takeover Detection Fraud

Account takeover attacks are on the rise and as fraudsters continue to use more sophisticated techniques, account takeover detection is becoming an increasingly important topic.

22 Jul '23

Affiliate Fraud Detection: A Comprehensive Guide To Detecting Fraud

Affiliate fraud detection is the only way to protect advertisers and affiliate networks from the growing threat of fraudulent traffic, which generates invalid clicks and unauthorized commissions for marketing campaigns.

11 Jul '23

Fraud Detection API: Enhancing Risk Scoring for Effective Fraud Prevention

Fraud Detection APIs provide real-time risk scoring for registrations, payments, and similar user behavior. Identify bots, abusive users, and high risk payments with a fraud detection API.

03 Jul '23

Detecting Residential Proxies: Unmasking Fraudulent IP Addresses

Detect fraudulent IP addresses such as residential proxies, VPN connections, and similar abusive anonymous connections.

13 May '23

Unmasking Gift Card Fraud: Sophisticated Fraud Detection Techniques

Gift card fraud & scams can be easily mitigated by deploying real-time fraud detection techniques. The most popular kinds of gift card fraud abuse utilize techniques that involve bots, proxies, VPNs, and stolen payment details.

04 Feb '23

How to Check if a Phone Number is Active

Invalid user data is typically a strong indicator of fraud, abuse, or low quality accounts. Phone number intelligence by IPQS can enrich a phone number with risk information including if the number is currently active or has been disconnected.

02 Jan '23

How to Prevent Fake Account Creation Fraud

Prevent fake account creation fraud to verify users during signup or registration. Prevent new account fraud by low quality, fake, or duplicate users.

10 Dec '22

How to Detect Google Voice & VoIP Virtual Numbers

Detect and prevent virtual phone numbers like Google Voice and anonymous VoIP digital numbers, which are frequently used for chargebacks, fraudulent behavior, and fake accounts.

19 Nov '22

Reverse Phone Lookup to Find Who Owns a Phone Number

Reverse phone number lookups provide an easy way to search a number and find the owner's name of a phone number.

19 Aug '22

Fraud Prevention API Explained - Benefits of Using Fraud Detection APIs

Fraud Prevention APIs help companies mitigate risk in real-time by preventing fraud such as detecting fake accounts, preventing chargebacks, bad users, account takeover (ATO), bots, and similar abuse.