The IPQualityScore Proxy Detection guide provides an overview of the tools, features, and capabilities of our powerful proxy detection API. This service enables you to identify and classify connections that use proxies, Tor nodes, or VPN connections to hide their true location. Such connections are commonly associated with fraudsters, spammers and other online bad actors. By identifying such connections you can prevent them from completing transactions, creating accounts, performing advertising click fraud, and other high risk behavior.

IPQualityScore Proxy Detection Guide: Secure Your Online Transactions

This free API identifies connections that are used to hide the users’ true identity online. These types of connections can be used by fraudsters to commit various crimes including credit card fraud and chargebacks, fake or duplicate account creation, advertising click fraud, geo-restricted content bypassing, and unauthorized access to personal information. Using a simple query, the API can return a score and an indication of whether the IP is considered to be a proxy or not (score +4, proxy type, VPN, etc).

Unlike many other services, this is a fully-featured API that allows you to report fraudsters directly through our Fraud Fusion program. The data submitted through this endpoint is used to train your account’s machine learning algorithms that identify patterns of high risk behavior. Once the ML model starts to decline, an alert is triggered that begins a cycle of retraining with new data to improve its accuracy and effectiveness. This feature provides you with a powerful, proactive approach to fraud prevention that can save you millions of dollars in financial losses and reputational damage.…