IP
Datacenter ranges cover most VPN and proxy egress. Not proof of anything on its own; it
gains weight in combination with other signals.
Variants built with dots and plus-addressing collapse to one address, so ten accounts
that look different count as one.
Phone
Virtual and VoIP numbers are flagged as their own category.
Device and browser
The device fingerprint is a stable identifier derived from what the browser reports.
Clear the cookies, end the session, open a private tab — the same device still appears
under the same trace. You send it as a field and use it in velocity rules: how many
distinct cards did this device try in the last 24 hours.
Domain
Why the lists are offline
Privacy
Every outbound query tells a third party what this customer is doing right now.
Latency
A decision inside a payment flow cannot wait on three external responses.
Cost
Per-query pricing makes teams trim their rules as volume grows.