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Interesting. We check to see if Javascript timezone matches GeoIP and/or billing/shipping address. Also Canvas fingerprinting works well. Lastly measuring latency is another good one since you can't cheat the speed light.


GeoIPing billing/shipping is always a good idea, but there are plenty of use cases (particularly depending on what industry you're in) where that will throw false red-flags. e.g. corporate card, registered to corporate office, etc. Unfortunately, it's also very trivial for a carder " " to find a SOCKS that geolocates back to the card's billing address.




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