Situation:
A vendor selling PC to Phone services was being targeted by a fraud ring. This type of fraud is very tricky to catch. The orders appeared to look legitimate. The card BIN, billing addresses and I.P. addresses all matched. What tipped off the fraud analyst to further investigate this, was the spelling of the customers’ names, name placement, and the frequency of the orders. Most orders had a French I.P. address, but there was one with the I.P. of Côte d’Ivoire. This one mistake led us to believe this was fraud coming out of Ghana. Using some deeper methods of fraud detection such as Device Identification, we were able to connect the orders to each other.
