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Merge pull request #1253 from maxmind/andram/risk-reasons-dev-site-updates
edits to risk score reasons section are live
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"reasons": [
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"code": "ANONYMOUS_IP",
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"reason": "Risk due to IP being an Anonymous IP"
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"reason": "The Anonymous IP address raised the overall risk score"
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},
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{
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"code": "IP_ISSUER_ID_NUMBER_VELOCITY",
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"reason": "The number of distinct Issuer ID Numbers found in the
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velocity check on IP address raised the overall risk score"
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"reasons": [
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"code": "TIME_OF_DAY",
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"reason": "Risk due to local time of day"
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"reason": "The local time of day of the request raised the overall
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risk score"
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}
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]
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},
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{
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"multiplier": 1.6,
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"reasons": [
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"reason": "Riskiness of newly-sighted email domain",
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"code": "EMAIL_DOMAIN_NEW"
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"code": "EMAIL_DOMAIN_NEW",
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"reason": "The email domain being recently seen for the first time
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in the minFraud network raised the overall risk score"
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}
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},
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{
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"multiplier": 0.34,
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"reasons": [
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"code": "EMAIL_ADDRESS_NEW",
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"reason": "Riskiness of newly-sighted email address"
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"code": "PHONE_ACTIVITY",
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"reason": "minFraud network activity of the phone number lowered
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the overall risk score"
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{{</minfraud-schema-row>}}
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{{< minfraud-schema-row key="code" type="response" valueType="string" valueTypeNote="format: enum, max length: 255" factors="true" >}}
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The machine-readable code for the risk reason. Although more codes may be added in the future, the current codes are:
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| Code | Reason |
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| ------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| BROWSER\_LANGUAGE | Riskiness of the browser user-agent and language associated with the request. |
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| BUSINESS\_ACTIVITY | Riskiness of business activity associated with the request. |
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| COUNTRY | Riskiness of the country associated with the request. |
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| CUSTOMER\_ID | Riskiness of a customer's activity. |
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| EMAIL\_DOMAIN | Riskiness of email domain. |
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| EMAIL\_DOMAIN\_NEW | Riskiness of newly-sighted email domain. |
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| EMAIL\_ADDRESS\_NEW | Riskiness of newly-sighted email address. |
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| EMAIL\_LOCAL\_PART | Riskiness of the local part of the email address. |
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| EMAIL\_VELOCITY | Velocity on email - many requests on same email over short period of time. |
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| ISSUER\_ID\_NUMBER\_COUNTRY\_MISMATCH | Riskiness of the country mismatch between IP, billing, shipping and IIN country. |
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| ISSUER\_ID\_NUMBER\_ON\_SHOP\_ID | Risk of Issuer ID Number for the shop ID. |
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| ISSUER\_ID\_NUMBER\_LAST\_DIGITS\_ACTIVITY | Riskiness of many recent requests and previous high-risk requests on the IIN and last digits of the credit card. |
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| ISSUER\_ID\_NUMBER\_SHOP\_ID\_VELOCITY | Risk of recent Issuer ID Number activity for the shop ID. |
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| INTRACOUNTRY\_DISTANCE | Risk of distance between IP, billing, and shipping location. |
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| ANONYMOUS\_IP | Risk due to IP being an Anonymous IP. |
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| IP\_BILLING\_POSTAL\_VELOCITY | Velocity of distinct billing postal code on IP address. |
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| IP\_EMAIL\_VELOCITY | Velocity of distinct email address on IP address. |
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| IP\_HIGH\_RISK\_DEVICE | High-risk device sighted on IP address. |
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| IP\_ISSUER\_ID\_NUMBER\_VELOCITY | Velocity of distinct IIN on IP address. |
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| IP\_ACTIVITY | Riskiness of IP based on minFraud network activity. |
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| LANGUAGE | Riskiness of browser language. |
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| MAX\_RECENT\_EMAIL | Riskiness of email address based on past minFraud risk scores on email. |
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| MAX\_RECENT\_PHONE | Riskiness of phone number based on past minFraud risk scores on phone. |
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| MAX\_RECENT\_SHIP | Riskiness of email address based on past minFraud risk scores on ship address. |
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| MULTIPLE\_CUSTOMER\_ID\_ON\_EMAIL | Riskiness of email address having many customer IDs. |
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| ORDER\_AMOUNT | Riskiness of the order amount. |
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| ORG\_DISTANCE\_RISK | Risk of ISP and distance between billing address and IP location. |
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| PHONE | Riskiness of the phone number or related numbers. |
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| CART | Riskiness of shopping cart contents. |
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| TIME\_OF\_DAY | Risk due to local time of day. |
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| TRANSACTION\_REPORT\_EMAIL | Risk due to transaction reports on the email address. |
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| TRANSACTION\_REPORT\_IP | Risk due to transaction reports on the IP address. |
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| TRANSACTION\_REPORT\_PHONE | Risk due to transaction reports on the phone number. |
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| TRANSACTION\_REPORT\_SHIP | Risk due to transaction reports on the shipping address. |
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| EMAIL\_ACTIVITY | Riskiness of the email address based on minFraud network activity. |
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| PHONE\_ACTIVITY | Riskiness of the phone number based on minFraud network activity. |
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| SHIP\_ACTIVITY | Riskiness of ship address based on minFraud network activity. |
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The machine-readable code for the risk reason. We have listed a few examples in the table below. A complete list of current codes may be provided on request.
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| Code |
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| ANONYMOUS\_IP |
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| COUNTRY |
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| ORG\_DISTANCE\_RISK |
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{{</minfraud-schema-row>}}
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{{< minfraud-schema-row key="reason" type="response" valueType="string" factors="true" >}}
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The human-readable description of the risk reason.
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The human-readable description of the risk reason and its effect on the overall risk score.
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| Code | Reason |
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| ANONYMOUS\_IP | The Anonymous IP address raised the overall risk score |
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| COUNTRY | The country associated with the request lowered the overall risk score |
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| ORG\_DISTANCE\_RISK | The risk of the ISP combined with the distance between the billing address and IP address location raised the overall risk score |
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{{</minfraud-schema-row>}}
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{{</ schema-table >}}
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