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by stephenlambe 4660 days ago
Sift intern here.

We use the time zone of the customer rather than of the website for scoring riskiness. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

As for customers including birth years in their emails, you're correct that this would be counter to the general trend. However, a fraud detection system like Sift has many data points on which to score a customer. Hopefully, the person would otherwise look benign and thus not have a very high overall score.

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Thanks for clarifying that. I though it used the server time.