Fraudsters have become more sophisticated within the past few years, using proxy and VPN connections to commit fraud online. The only way for companies to adequately protect themselves against modern fraud tactics is by using an advanced proxy detection service, which includes a VPN detection API that can identify malicious IP addresses so suspicious users and payments can be accurately determined.

Proxy detection APIs provide websites and apps with a real-time IP address lookup to detect proxies, VPNs, & TOR connections. Enrich any IP address with risk data to better identify malicious IP addresses, anonymous IPs, residential proxies, and botnets. The IP address API also provides geo-location, connection type, & ISP data.

Using a proxy detection API is a best practice for detecting fraud and analyzing risk for account registration, transactions, clicks, and similar user actions. The API's real-time results can enrich user accounts for any platform to improve fraud detection techniques. Since the system supports live lookups, you can deploy the API for an on-demand lookup upon any user action, like submitting a form.

• Low-Quality Users: Identify duplicate user accounts, fake user information, and fraudulent registrations.
  
  
• Chargebacks & Payment Fraud: Prevent chargebacks, high-risk transactions, and all types of e-commerce fraud.
  
  
• Click Fraud & Invalid Clicks: Solve click fraud quality issues with real-time click filtering and ensure only high-quality clicks. Stop all forms of invalid traffic.
  
  
• IP Reputation: Analyze IP Address reputation to detect proxies, VPNs, and TOR connections and determine the probability of fraudulent activity.
  
  
• Account Takeover: Monitor accounts for unusual behavior and session hijacking attempts.
  
  
• Bot Detection: Filter non-human traffic in real-time with IPQS bot detection tools.
  
  
• Geo Filtering: Prevent users from bypassing requirements and conditions for accessing content outside their country of residence.
  
  
• High-Risk Behavior: Analyze user behavior against millions of high-risk patterns that indicate a user's intent to engage in fraudulent activity.
  
  
• Lead Generation & User Data Verification: Ensure the data you are collecting is valid, accurate, and fresh.

IPQS cultivates the most accurate and up-to-date data for IP intelligence and reputation scoring. Unlike other providers, IPQS gathers data directly from our proprietary honeypots, traps, crawlers, and thousands of live sites opted into our threat intelligence network. False positives are minimized by only using fresh data and scanning billions of IP addresses every day. New threats are detected every second, so even the latest compromised IP addresses cannot harm your business.