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Fraud Prevention Resources

Practical guidance on emerging abuse, useful risk signals, and choosing fraud prevention solutions for your business.

Bot & Account Fraud

How to Detect Bot Signups and Fake Registrations

A rise in registrations does not always mean a rise in real customers. Learn how to examine account creation patterns, shared signals, and downstream behavior to investigate automated and fake signups.

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Email Intelligence

How to Detect Disposable Emails During Signup

Disposable-email detection helps identify temporary addresses at registration. Understand the difference between deliverability, classification, and fraud-risk assessment—and how to build a proportionate policy.

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SMS Fraud

SMS Pumping and SMS Toll Fraud: How to Detect Abuse Before Your Messaging Bill Spikes

SMS verification can become a source of unexpected costs when attackers repeatedly trigger messages for financial gain. Learn the warning signs, layered controls, and monitoring approach to investigate and reduce exposure.

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Phone Intelligence

How to Detect VoIP and Virtual Phone Numbers During Signup

A line-type lookup tells you something about a phone number—not whether the person using it is legitimate. Learn what phone classification can and cannot do, and how to build a proportionate screening workflow.

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IP Intelligence

Residential Proxy Detection: What Fraud Teams Should Evaluate

A residential-looking IP address does not establish a legitimate user. Learn what residential proxy detection can and cannot tell you, how it fits with device and account signals, and what to ask providers.

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Email Intelligence

Email Validation vs. Email Fraud Risk: What's the Difference?

Deliverability, disposable classification and fraud-risk assessment are separate questions. Understanding what each email check can and cannot tell you helps you build a proportionate screening workflow.

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Lead & Affiliate Fraud

How to Detect Fake Leads and Affiliate Fraud Before They Reach Your Sales Team

Automated submissions, fabricated contact details and incentivized leads inflate pipeline and waste sales time. Learn how to assess lead quality using email, phone, IP, device and source signals.

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Account Fraud

Duplicate Accounts and Multi-Accounting: How to Evaluate the Signals

Repeated identifiers, account velocity, and shared infrastructure are observable patterns in multi-accounting abuse. Learn how to evaluate the signals and distinguish legitimate multiple accounts from abuse.

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Buying Guidance

How to Compare Fraud Prevention Providers, Pricing and Proposals

Comparing fraud prevention providers requires more than a feature checklist. Learn how to evaluate fit, coverage, integration effort, testing methodology, pricing structure, and commercial terms before committing.

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