Manual Review Best Practices: What’s the Value of Assessing IP Address Risk?

In this blog post, we continue our discussion of best practices for manual review. Today’s topic is assessing IP address risk. A fraudster (or indeed, anyone) placing an order on a website uses a device (computer, mobile phone or tablet) and this device is associated with an IP address. In our last blog post, we discussed how the physical location of the IP address can be matched against other location information to see if anything looks suspicious. For example, it’s best to closely scrutinize orders where the location of an IP address is in one country and the billing address in another.