By anatoa on

Dear Drupal users,

London, UK (May 03 2009) Univalence Ltd, a London based company established in 2008, is today launching a Drupal module for Anatoa, the new online fraud detection service directed at membership based websites run by individual webmasters as well as small and medium companies.

The service addresses both so-called profile scam and abusive members, both major reasons for membership based websites not reaching their full potential.

The typical example of profile scam is the "Nigerian 419 scam", in which organised fraudsters, often based in West Africa, use promises of large amounts of money to defraud people they contact on the Internet.

Anatoa provides a service for detection and automated detection of these fraudsters, using WebServices technology and ready-made plugins for 20 of the most popular software packages used by websites today. By combining input from all members of the service, new fraudsters are quickly detected and prevented from conducting their activity on all members' websites. The service is free for most websites, with charging models coming into account for those with a large member base.

Websites that install the module can expect immediate benefits by preventing fraudsters from destroing their growth potential, as well as cleaning up their existing membership database. Once active members, they can display Anatoa's membership logo on their member sign-up form as a further deterrent."

More information can be found at Anatoa's website http://www.anatoa.com and the Drupal module's homepage http://drupal.org/project/anatoa.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Comments

zoon_unit’s picture

zoon_unit commented

You guys need to describe exactly how this works on your website. How do you check a profile's validity? Do users have to put in their real names and addresses?

pvasili’s picture

pvasili commented

Any people do not believe in the "black box" :)
Please do not insult the Russians and the Nigerians!
In England, too, is many fraud. Perhaps http://www.anatoa.com. too ;)

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anatoa commented

Hi and thanks for your comment.

In brief, the Drupal module collects some information about the user when signing up and logging in, and checks this information against our central servers. This information is IP address, proxy IP address if used, email address or one way hash of email address (configurable), username, first name (optional), last name (optional), registration country (optional). All of this information is then compared to data from known fraudsters and a "fraud likelyhood" score is calculated and returned to the Drupal module.

In addition, images and comments/messages uploaded by users are also checked against known images and phrases used by fraudsters.

Best regards
Anatoa Admin

zoon_unit’s picture

zoon_unit commented

Thanks for the update. That's very helpful. You should post that on your site.

anatoa’s picture

anatoa commented

Thank you for your suggestion - we've added an FAQ section to our website addressing this and other questions.