TOP STORIES: FEBRUARY 2010 iovation Wins Best New Technology Award iovation was presented with the award for Best New Technology at the 2010 Internet Dating Awards ceremony which took place during the 7th annual Internet Dating Conference. The award recognizes iovation’s fraud protection service as the best individual technology created by a vendor for dating sites. These sites use ReputationManager™ to identify and shut down cyber criminals and prevent unwanted behavior including account take-overs, romance scams, identify theft, inappropriate chat, spam, stalking and cyber bullying. New Era Tickets Reduces Total Fraud by 98 Percent and Ensures Fair Ticket Sales Increased online ticket sales led to increased fraud rates and higher chargeback rates for New Era Tickets. Scalpers worked together to defraud their entertainment clients and their customers. Since New Era Tickets needed to stop criminal behavior within a very limited timeframe, they chose iovation's real-time device reputation service which dropped fraud losses from triple digits to nearly zero. Read the case study. iovation Presents on Global Fraud at the Merchant Risk Council Platinum Meeting As the Merchant Risk Council (MRC) expands into Europe in 2010 with their first meeting in Brussels this April, the focus on global fraud prevention is front and center. During the MRC's 2010 Annual e-Commerce Payments and Risk - Platinum Day Meeting on March 16th, iovation will be presenting lessons learned and statistics on fraud cross-over, worldwide across industries: i.e. the number of fraudsters hitting both non-retail industries, such as international gaming sites, and also defrauding online merchant sites. Technology Keeps Scammers Out of Your Heart and Wallet The Miami New Times blog recently covered iovation's device reputation service and how it is used by online communities to detect and block scammers. As stated in the article: “by examining devices—the computers from which fraudsters generate profiles—iovation can detect when something is amiss. Fraudsters create many profiles and use them to attract potential victims," iovation VP Max Anhoury says. "And these profiles have one common denominator in that process: the computer on which they were initiated." Read the article for stats on dating fraud identified within the last 90 days—taken from iovation's global database of device reputations. iovation Facts We have processed over 2.5 billion device reputation checks. We stop over 30,000 online fraudulent activities every single day. We manage over 250 million device reputations in our shared database. We provide fraud protection for over 300 websites worldwide. Upcoming Events Asian iGaming Congress March 9-11, 2010 Manila, Philippines Game Developers Conference March 9-13, 2010 San Francisco, CA HR 2267: Fraud, Security and ID Verification Safeguards March 16, 2010 Online Seminar MRC eCommerce Payments & Risk Conference March 16-18, 2010 Las Vegas, NV See All Events » Latest Blog Story Multi-Layered Device Recognition Solution Protects Against Weaknesses in Any One Strategy Data Sheets ReputationManager - Protect Your Business and Customers with Device Reputation Risk Module - Assess the Risk of New Devices Resources iovation Blog Blog RSS Feed Twitter Webinars Videos Join our Community Subscribe to the largest global database of device-based fraudulent histories to minimize your fraud losses and gain operational efficiencies. Questions? Get answers to the most commonly asked questions about iovation's device-based fraud protection service. Copyright 2010 iovation Inc. All rights reserved. 111 SW 5th Avenue, Suite 3200, Portland, Oregon 97204