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Electronic commerce system and method for detecting fraud

  • US 7,881,972 B2
  • Filed: 10/12/2006
  • Issued: 02/01/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/04/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An electronic commerce system having a server and an end user machine interacting through a network during an electronic commerce transaction, the server comprising:

  • a software module configured to receive user-entered information submitted by a user through the end user machine via the network within the electronic commerce system, the user-entered information comprising information for an electronic purchase order for a product that was entered by a user into the end user machine; and

    a fraud detection mechanism active during electronic commerce transactions configured to determine a fraud ranking that indicates a likelihood that the electronic purchase order is attempted fraud based upon a quantitative analysis of a daily bad uses counter by determining a number of times that a piece of received user-entered information from the electronic purchase order appeared on another order that was declined that day.

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