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Case Study: Reducing Chargebacks Using the minFraud Service

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the team at MaxMind
May 4, 2016

Thexyz, a Canadian company, provides a secure email service. This paid platform gives customers an email address that is secure and private while keeping the user experience ad-free.

Introducing the …

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Online Fraud Detection

Behind the Scenes: High Risk Shipping Addresses

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Miguel Atienza
April 4, 2016

Just like good customers, fraudsters must provide a shipping address in order to receive merchandise. But fraudsters, who need to evade detection and efficiently resell stolen goods, leave traces in …

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IP Geolocation and Network Data Online Fraud Detection

How to recognize legitimate proxy use and reduce false positives during order review

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Miguel Atienza
March 4, 2016

As a merchant, you’ll frequently see cases where multiple orders with different billing addresses and payment methods are placed from the same IP address, and it’s not clear whether or not this …

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Online Fraud Detection

Case Study: Using Historical Transaction Data to Reduce Chargebacks

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Miguel Atienza
January 4, 2016

The new year has arrived. With transaction history from a busy holiday season on hand, this is a great time to take a look your historical transactions with a fresh and critical eye.

Reviewing your …

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IP Geolocation and Network Data

How to Protect Your Streaming Content from VPN & Proxy Traffic

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the team at MaxMind
October 29, 2015

As more and more TV, music, and movie content has moved online, a veritable industry has grown up around helping people to circumvent location based broadcast restrictions. Demonstrating the scale of …

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IP Geolocation and Network Data

Building Your Own MMDB Database for Fun and Profit

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Olaf Alders
September 29, 2015

Deprecation Notice

We have deprecated the Perl writer discussed in this article. It is no longer developed or supported. We encourage you to use our Go github.com/maxmind/mmdbwriter module instead. …

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