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by mynewwork 4834 days ago
So what happens when a user scores high? Suppose I'm a firefox & windows xp user from elbonia shopping at 3am, does the site not let me make a purchase? Am I forced to provide extra information or are items delayed before shipping?
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(I work at Sift Science.)

We provide a score, and then let our customers decide what to do. The majority of our customers have a human review the user, and sometimes as part of that review, they'll do extra verification such as calling the user up. In other cases, customers will delay charging the credit card until they can verify it's legitimate.