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Marketing Fraud: How to prevent it?

Marketing Fraud mimics human behavior when visiting websites, clicking on ads, filling out forms and surveys, skewing results and wasting ad spend.

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Marketing Fraud

Goes after
Ads, forms and surveys
Caught by
Headless browsers, Proxies & hosting networks, Country & continent rules

How CloudFilt stops Marketing Fraud

How is CloudFilt useful to protect against Marketing Fraud?

CloudFilt is a Marketing Fraud protection solution that uses a combination of techniques, including data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence, to identify and block fraudulent activity.

CloudFilt works by analyzing a large amount of data, including data from marketing campaigns, user data, and data from external sources. The solution uses this data to identify patterns and anomalies that may indicate fraudulent activity.

CloudFilt offers a variety of features to help businesses protect themselves from Marketing Fraud. These features include:

  • Detection of fraudulent clicks: Used to identify fraudulent clicks, such as clicks made by robots or by people who are not interested in the product or service advertised.
  • Identifying fraudulent phone calls: Helps identify fraudulent phone calls, such as calls made by people posing as employees of a legitimate business or organization.
  • Blocking fraudulent email messages: Can block fraudulent email messages, such as emails that contain links to malicious websites or request sensitive personal information.
  • Payment fraud identification: Can identify payment fraud, such as attempts to pay with stolen credit cards or attempts to pay for products or services that do not exist.
  • Scam Protection: Helps protect businesses from scams, such as fake news, disinformation and spam campaigns.

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How CloudFilt protects businesses against Marketing Fraud

CloudFilt uses a combination of techniques to protect businesses against Marketing Fraud. These techniques include:

  • Data analysis:Allows you to analyze a large amount of data, including marketing campaign data, user data and data from external sources. This analysis allows CloudFilt to identify patterns and anomalies that may indicate fraudulent activity.
  • Machine learning:Using machine learning to learn how to identify fraudulent activities. Machine learning allows CloudFilt to adapt to new fraud techniques and improve its accuracy over time.
  • Artificial intelligence:Using artificial intelligence to make quick and effective decisions. Artificial intelligence allows CloudFilt to block fraudulent activity in real time.

What is Marketing Fraud?

Marketing Fraud is an activity that aims to deceive or abuse consumers in order to extract money or personal information. It can take many forms, and it is constantly evolving.

Mass marketing fraud

Mass marketing fraud is one of the most common forms of Marketing Fraud. It involves sending unsolicited electronic messages or telephone calls to a large number of people. These messages or calls are often fraudulent, and they may attempt to persuade recipients to purchase unnecessary products or services, provide sensitive personal information, or participate in scams.

Click fraud

Click fraud is a form of Marketing Fraud that aims to generate revenue for advertisers. It involves artificially clicking on online advertisements, whether by bots, malware, or even humans.

Traffic fraud

Traffic fraud is a form of Marketing Fraud that aims to artificially generate traffic to a website or application. It can be used to inflate traffic figures, or to trick search engines and recommendation algorithms.

Content fraud

Content fraud is a form of Marketing Fraud that involves creating or distributing fraudulent content, such as fake news, biased reviews, or misleading promotions. Content fraud can be used to manipulate public opinion, or to promote fraudulent products or services.

The consequences of Marketing Fraud for businesses?

Marketing Fraud can have significant negative consequences for businesses, both financially and in terms of reputation.

Financial losses

Marketing Fraud can cause financial losses for businesses in several ways. One of the main ways is click fraud. Scammers may use bots or other means to artificially click on ads, inflating traffic figures and advertising revenue. For example, an e-commerce business that spends $100,000 per month on online advertising could lose up to $20,000 by blocking fraudulent clicks.

Privacy Violations

Marketing Fraud can result in violations of consumer privacy. Fraudsters may use personal information collected from consumers to commit scams or spread spam. For example, a fraudster may use an email address or phone number collected from a consumer to send spam emails or to call the consumer and ask for personal information.

Bad reputation

Marketing Fraud can damage the reputation of businesses. If a company is the victim of a false information campaign, it can lose the trust of its customers and partners. For example, a company that is the victim of a false information campaign on social media may see its sales drop and its shares lose value.

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From request to verdict

Each request is scored from the front and the back end, then allowed, challenged or blocked before it reaches your server.

  1. Visitor

    A browser, a script or a bot sends a request to your website or API.

  2. Nearest point of presence

    The CDN WAF, or your plugin, hands the request to the closest point of presence.

  3. Signals

    IP reputation, behaviour, rate, country and your own rules, weighed in real time.

  4. Verdict

    • Allowed to your site
    • Challenge captcha first
    • Blocked never reaches you

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