Use Upgini for Fraud Prevention

Registration fraud refers to any customer account created with fraudulent information, a practice that is becoming increasingly difficult to detect as attack techniques rapidly evolve.

Actually, there are a large number and variety of cases, from individuals trying to abuse sales promotions and discount coupons, to highly distributed and sophisticated attacks that use fake or stolen identities, making them difficult to effectively detect and stop.

Upgini uses several user IDs, such as phone number, IP address, and email, to compare the behavioral profile of users for each ID. This helps to find contradictions and increase the quality of your own fraud detection system. Upgini adds 5 to 10 percentage points of accuracy to the average fraud detection system.

Search for new relevant features for your custom Credit Fraud prevention system:

1. Obtain a training dataset of Registration Fraud with customer ID and label. Upgini supports the following customer IDs: phone number, IP address, and email. The label is a mark of Fraud registration application or not.
2. Search for new relevant features for your task: launch FIT method of Upgini and get a list of relevant features from connected data sources.
3. Make a test enrichment: launch TRANSFORM method of Upgini and enrich your dataset with only new relevant features.
4. Use Upgini in production: Upgini moves relevant features for the all Phone numbers, Emails and IP-addresses to your DWH. You may use this data directly in your DWH.

If you don't have your own Registration Fraud prevention system or you don't have a training dataset, you may use the ready Upgini Fraud Score. This is an informational tool that helps you gauge the risk involved with an registration applications before processing. This is done by identifying traits and historical trends associated with suspicious behavior and fraudulent registrations.

There are several methods that competitors may use to attack each other:

1. Manipulating reviews
2. Manipulating ordering

These attacks can result in a drop in sales.

Develop an AI service that will check every order and every review for competitor attack.

Upgini lets you enrich your systems with new relevant external data that may help you to identify competitor attack by IP-address, user geo position or email: more than 7,000 features are available.