Risk Scoring
Understand how the risk score, IP risk score, and risk score reasons are generated, and how to calibrate your response to them.
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Risk Scores
The minFraud services return an overall risk score, which represents the likelihood that a transaction is fraudulent. You can use the overall risk score and risk score reasons (available only throu...
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Overall Risk Score
The overall risk score, usually just referred to as "the risk score," is minFraud's most actionable output. It is returned by all minFraud services. The risk score is given as a percentage ranging ...
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Risk Score Reasons
Risk score reasons are a set of data that provide you with specific and understandable reasons for why a risk score is high or low. This data is exclusive to the minFraud Factors service. Learn mor...
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IP Risk Score
The IP risk score is available in all minFraud services: Score, Insights, and Factors. It is given as a percentage ranging from 0.01 to 99. For example, an IP risk score of 15.40 means that the tra...
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Set Thresholds for Risk Scores
In order to leverage the minFraud web services for automation, many users take action based on certain thresholds for the risk score or scores, in conjunction with various risk data outputs. In the...
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Velocity Checks
The minFraud services check the velocity of changing transaction data linked to IP addresses and devices. For example, if many different email addresses are sighted on a single IP address, the serv...