Unmasking the Infrastructure Behind Payment Fraud | Presented by Spur Intelligence
Summary
Payment fraud is becoming harder to detect as fraudsters increasingly hide behind VPNs, residential proxies, hosting infrastructure, and other anonymization services that make malicious traffic look more like legitimate customers. Traditional fraud controls can often identify known bad infrastructure, but those tools often lack the context needed to understand what is happening within an individual session.
In this webinar, Spur co-founder Ethan Smith will explore how session enrichment can give fraud teams a clearer picture of the infrastructure and behavior behind online transactions. We’ll examine how to combine session-level signals with existing identity, device, behavioral, and fraud controls to identify anonymization, proxy usage, infrastructure characteristics, geographic inconsistencies, and other indicators that can help distinguish legitimate customers from higher-risk activity.
Attendees will learn how these signals can complement existing fraud stacks to improve risk decisions throughout the customer journey, from account creation and login through checkout and payment. We’ll also discuss practical approaches for using richer session context to inform policies that introduce progressive friction, prioritize suspicious activity for review, and stop fraud without unnecessarily disrupting legitimate customers.
What You'll Learn
- Recognize how modern fraudsters hide using VPNs, residential proxies, hosting providers, and other techniques that can circumvent traditional IP reputation and fraud controls
- Understand how session-level insights add context to payment fraud decisions, including signals related to anonymization, infrastructure, geography, and session behavior.
- Identify opportunities to apply session enrichment across the transaction journey, including account creation, login, account recovery, checkout, and payment.
- Use session context to make more precise fraud decisions, including allowing legitimate activity, introducing additional verification, routing transactions for review, or blocking higher-risk sessions.
- Evaluate how session enrichment can complement existing identity, device, behavioral, and fraud controls without requiring merchants to replace their current fraud stack.
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