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by flgtechnology 893 days ago
Hi, thanks for giving it a try.

Business emails are harder to screen using this method but your understanding is correct, it is flagged as high risk because of not being found on those sites.

We'll check the disposable email sources, thanks for your feedback on that.

Some ISPs do show as a risk, even genuine residential. We can tweak the thresholds over time. We keep an eye on this.

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I don’t really understand why certain residential ISPs carry a higher risk score. In some cases the consumer doesn’t have much or any choice over their provider. What’s the reasoning behind this?
I agree it would not be the consumer's fault or responsibility, but in terms of deciding on the overall probability of risk in a profile, some residential ISPs do have proportionately more bad traffic than others.

We don't attribute a high number of points to this because it doesn't deserve a high weighting but it's probably right to factor it into the score.

Having said that it's early days for us and we're still tweaking/testing.