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by toxic_ 2981 days ago
Stripe's fraud detection heuristics are neither sophisticated nor particularly effective.

Judicious use of DNSBLs, port scanning and latency measurements, three measures which shouldn't take a competent technician more than a few days to knock together, will outperform Stripe.

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If you're convinced you can outperform Stripe in a couple days, you should probably be launching your own fraud-fighting saas, because you'll make a killing. It's a literal many-billion-dollar opportunity.
I kind of want to take you up on this at a very basic level, as a weekend thing.
Create an API so you can check them all with one request