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Development, Testing, and Beyond—Preventing In-App Fraud

As is true with most successful marketplaces, app stores attract fraudsters looking to benefit themselves on someone else’s dime. With millions of apps available on multiple store platforms, policing each app for fraud has become increasingly...

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Gaming & Ad Fraud Part 2 - Online Game Companies Have to Win

Online gaming has always helped foster connections between people no matter where they are. This can also make them an easy target for online fraudsters. When the pandemic kicked into high gear, keeping people close when isolated created a rich...

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Gaming & Ad Fraud Part 1 -  Preventing Online Game Fraud

We’ve talked about ad fraud in general and in very specific contexts on this blog. Though the situations and context can change, the results are the same: everyone loses when ad fraud is in play.

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Sophisticated Invalid Traffic—Is Your Site Traffic Signaling Ad Fraud?

When you’re stuck in rush hour traffic, it’s easy to see the problem—too many cars going in the same direction at the same time or a lane shut down due to an accident or broken-down vehicle. Whatever the cause, most of this traffic involves vehicles...

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Bad Bots are Winning: The High Stakes of Bots

If you’ve been keeping up with the Elon Musk Twitter saga, you might have recently read about his latest move in his self-proclaimed war on bots. He famously claimed he would beat the bots or die trying. He immediately followed with a promise to...

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Why CAPTCHA is Ineffective at Spotting Real Fraud

CAPTCHA is Worse than a Doctor's Handwriting — It Tests Everyone's Patience and Isn't a Healthy Solution

CAPTCHA is your attempt to prove to a computer that you are, in fact, not a computer. Ah, the irony of the CAPTCHA.

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3 Steps to Prepare Your Online Fraud Defenses for 2023

Online ad fraud didn’t take a holiday, nor should your protection. As the start of a new year often coincides with goal setting and ambitious plans, prioritize protecting your online defense strategy. We won’t rehash it here, but we’ve already...

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The Top 5 Biggest Ad Fraud Scams of 2022

Ad fraud is one of the biggest challenges faced by the digital advertising industry. It cost businesses an estimated $100 billion in 2022, representing only about 20% of the $500 billion in global ad spend. Unfortunately, these types of scams are...

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How to Tell If Facebook, Instagram, or Tik Tok Bots Are Following You

From October 31, 2021, to December 31, 2021, Tik Tok removed nearly 441 million fake followers. Such a massive quantity indicates that social media numbers don't always tell the truth. 

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Playing Hide-and-Seek: IP Masking, Proxies, and Anonymity

Let’s face it, most of the time craving anonymity in cyberspace is an indication of nefarious intent. We’ve discussed the impact ofIP Masking and the use of aResidential Proxy Server, and both are tools typically used to hide activity on a grand...

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