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Anura blocks invalid traffic before it enters your gaming or streaming environment — protecting you from inflated engagement, promo abuse, and wasted marketing spend.

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Industry Challenges

The impact of fraud on gaming and streaming experiences.

Fraud can severely impact your gaming and streaming platforms, undermining the user experience, platform integrity, and the credibility of your business. It discourages real players and viewers and can lead to lower activity, wasted marketing spend, and lost revenue.

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Loss of Revenue

Invalid traffic prevents real users from seeing ads, reducing earnings for gaming and streaming platforms.

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Damage to Reputation

Fraudulent or irrelevant ads undermine trust, making players and viewers question the safety and credibility of your platform.

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Decreased User Engagement

When users encounter misleading ads, fake activity, or fraudulent gamers they may become frustrated and less engaged with the site.

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Increased Operational Costs

Platforms are forced to spend more time, money, and resources trying to detect and fight fraud in the gaming industry, increasing overall operating expenses.

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Negative Impact on Advertisers

Advertisers lose trust when impressions, clicks, or views come from invalid traffic, making both gaming and streaming platforms less attractive for future campaigns.

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Reduced Platform Integrity

Fraudulent gamers, hijacked accounts, and artificial streaming activity threaten the fairness and authenticity of the entire ecosystem.

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Benefits of Gaming Fraud Prevention

Protect every player, viewer, and interaction.

Create a trusted ecosystem where real users engage authentically and fraudulent activity is blocked in real-time.

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Combat Multi-Account Fraud

Don't let unfair advantages disrupt your game ecosystem. Detect and take action against individuals using multiple accounts to gain an unfair edge.

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Preserve Competitive Balance

Combat the use of bots that artificially advance levels, giving players an unfair advantage. Maintain fairness, prevent frustration, and safeguard your game's reputation.

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Secure Transactions, Protect Revenue

Online in-game shops are a prime target for testing stolen credit cards, resulting in chargebacks and financial losses for game companies. Safeguard your revenue by identifying and preventing fraudulent transactions.

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Protect User Accounts

Prevent unauthorized access and account takeovers, which can lead to blackmail, unauthorized resale, and other fraudulent activities. Secure your users' accounts and their trust in your platform.

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Ensure Fair Rewards

Prevent dishonest players from exploiting new user rewards by continuously creating fresh accounts. Preserve the integrity of your game's reward system and financial framework.

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Enforce Fair Play

Combat cheating and toxic behavior by identifying players using multiple accounts to evade penalties. Create a positive gaming community by enforcing fair play rules effectively.

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Eliminate Wasted Ad Spend

Fraudsters frequently exploit gaming platforms by creating numerous fake accounts, artificially inflating active user numbers. This deceptive tactic misleads advertisers, distorting the true potential reach of their ads and exposing their campaigns to fraudulent engagement. Protect your ad spend from exposure to fraudulent gamers.

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Unlock Fairness and Profitability with Anura's Advanced Technology

Fairness is crucial for an exceptional gaming experience. With Anura's comprehensive fraud detection solution, you can combat bots, malware, and human fraud, ensuring a level playing field for all players. By protecting your platform from fraudulent activities, you build trust with your users and deliver better results for your advertisers.

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Combat Multi-Account Fraud

Don't let unfair advantages disrupt your game ecosystem. Detect and take action against individuals using multiple accounts to gain an unfair edge.

checkmark on shield icon

Preserve Competitive Balance

Combat the use of bots that artificially advance levels, giving players an unfair advantage. Maintain fairness, prevent frustration, and safeguard your game's reputation.

dollar in a box icon

Secure Transactions, Protect Revenue

Online in-game shops are a prime target for testing stolen credit cards, resulting in chargebacks and financial losses for game companies. Safeguard your revenue by identifying and preventing fraudulent transactions.

human target icon

Protect User Accounts

Prevent unauthorized access and account takeovers, which can lead to blackmail, unauthorized resale, and other fraudulent activities. Secure your users' accounts and their trust in your platform.

shopping tag icon

Ensure Fair Rewards

Prevent dishonest players from exploiting new user rewards by continuously creating fresh accounts. Preserve the integrity of your game's reward system and financial framework.

radar icon

Enforce Fair Play

Combat cheating and toxic behavior by identifying players using multiple accounts to evade penalties. Create a positive gaming community by enforcing fair play rules effectively.

wasted-resources-icon

Eliminate Wasted Ad Spend

Fraudsters frequently exploit gaming platforms by creating numerous fake accounts, artificially inflating active user numbers. This deceptive tactic misleads advertisers, distorting the true potential reach of their ads and exposing their campaigns to fraudulent engagement. Protect your ad spend from exposure to fraudulent gamers.

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Unlock Fairness and Profitability with Anura's Advanced Technology

Fairness is crucial for an exceptional gaming experience. With Anura's comprehensive fraud detection solution, you can combat bots, malware, and human fraud, ensuring a level playing field for all players. By protecting your platform from fraudulent activities, you build trust with your users and deliver better results for your advertisers.

Benefits of Anura

Powerful gaming and streaming protection.

Stop invalid traffic in real time, before it ever enters your platform, maintaining a trusted experience for players, viewers, and advertisers.

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Real-time fraud detection, protecting your gaming company from potential financial losses.

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It ensures fair play by identifying and blocking fraudulent players, maintaining a positive gaming experience for all users.

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Uses machine learning to continuously improve its fraud detection algorithms, staying ahead of new threats.

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It reduces the time and resources your team needs to spend on manual fraud investigation and mitigation.

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Comprehensive reports provide detailed insights into fraud attempts, helping you understand and address your security vulnerabilities.

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It enhances user trust and brand reputation by ensuring a secure gaming environment.

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Easy integration minimizes disruptions to your existing systems and processes.

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It can protect your ad budget from fraudulent impressions and clicks, increasing the effectiveness of your marketing efforts.

At Gaijin Entertainment, were running all of our relevant online traffic by Anura to eliminate user acquisition fraud for our online gaming titles....they have helped us to greatly reduce direct acquisition cost as well as the time needed to identify and ban fraudulent sources. They have a great and very responsive customer service that promptly handles questions and other inquiries.

Dennis Wierzbowski
Gaijin Entertainment

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Case Study

Proven Impact: Launch Potato’s Fraud Prevention Success

Fraud Stopped in Real Time

Anura identified and blocked fraudulent gamers, bots, and invalid traffic before it could impact campaigns, protecting ad spend and preserving revenue.

Confidence to Scale Campaigns

With fraudulent traffic removed, Launch Potato could safely expand gaming and promotion campaigns, optimize media buying, and grow reach without risking low-quality leads.

Accurate Data for Better Decisions

Cleaner, verified traffic allowed the team to make data-driven decisions, improve targeting, and deliver better results for clients and partners.

“Anura has a great team. They are proactive in reaching out, making sure that the product is working, and that it’s meeting our needs. I’m always appreciative of those things and they’ve certainly been a pleasure to work with.” — Launch Potato

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FAQs

What is gaming fraud and how does it impact my platform?

Gaming fraud refers to fake users, bots, hijacked accounts, and other malicious activity that manipulates gameplay, inflates metrics, or abuses promotions. Fraud in the gaming industry can damage user experience, distort analytics, reduce revenue, and undermine trust in your platform.

How does fraud affect streaming platforms?

Streaming platforms face fake views, automated engagement, credential abuse, and invalid traffic that inflates performance metrics. This leads to wasted ad spend, inaccurate reporting, and a degraded experience for real viewers and advertisers.

Why is gaming fraud prevention important?

Without strong gaming fraud prevention solutions, platforms are vulnerable to bots, fake accounts, promotional abuse, chargebacks, and account takeovers. Preventing gaming fraud protects revenue, preserves fair play, and keeps your ecosystem safe for real users.

Will fraud prevention slow down the user experience?

No. Anura analyzes every visitor in real time without adding friction or latency. Your players and viewers get a seamless experience while threats are blocked instantly in the background.

What types of fraud can Anura detect for streaming and gaming?

Anura detects invalid traffic in real time, helping you prevent issues like bot-driven gameplay, fake streams, mass account creation, promo abuse, and other harmful behaviors that stem from invalid or nonhuman activity across gaming titles and streaming environments.

How does Anura help protect user accounts?

By identifying invalid traffic at the source, Anura helps stop the kinds of behaviors that lead to credential misuse, account takeovers, and unauthorized access. This keeps user accounts secure and prevents bad actors from infiltrating your game, stream, or community.

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