Fraud Intelligence, Explained

Stripe Radar Is Blocking Legitimate Customers - What Should I Do?

If Radar is declining good buyers, the fix is usually rule tuning - not ripping Radar out. How to loosen over-aggressive rules with data-backed false-positive estimates.

Idan Hayon

August 28, 2026

How to Reduce False Declines in Stripe

False declines happen when Radar rules over-fire on legitimate cards. Reduce them with ranked rule changes and estimated false-positive impact - alongside Stripe Radar, not instead of it.

Idan Hayon

August 28, 2026

Guide6 min read

How to Stop Card Testing Attacks on Shopify

Card testing is high-velocity stolen-card checks at checkout. Stop it with Protect and Radar velocity rules matched to your auth patterns - ranked changes with false-positive estimates.

Idan Hayon

August 28, 2026

Guide6 min read

Best Fraud Prevention Tools for Shopify in 2026

An honest 2026 listicle: Shopify Protect, Signifyd, Riskified, Chargeflow, NoFraud/ClearSale/Sift - and FraudPulse as the rule-advisor layer that tells you which Protect rules to change.

Idan Hayon

August 28, 2026

What Should I Do If Stripe Warns My Dispute Rate Is Too High?

A high Stripe dispute-rate warning is a prevention problem: classify why disputes happen, then change Radar rules. Recovery apps help after chargebacks - they do not rank which rules to change.

Idan Hayon

August 28, 2026

How to Pass a Stripe Account Review After Chargebacks

A Stripe account review is Stripe’s process - not an app you install. Show you understand the dispute mix and have tightened the right Radar rules. FraudPulse does not get accounts out of review.

Idan Hayon

August 28, 2026

False Positives Are One of the Biggest Hidden Costs in Risk Management

Around 10% of eCommerce payments are rejected by fraud systems, but up to 70% of those declines are legitimate customers. The real cost isn’t just ops hours - false positives change how analysts work.

Idan Hayon

August 21, 2026

Fraud Analysis Is Not Just a Data Problem

More data and a better model rarely fix fraud on their own. Effective analysis sits at the intersection of data skills and real fraud, payments, and operational expertise.

Idan Hayon

August 17, 2026

News4 min read

The Biggest Fraud-Related Change This Year Is a Change in Responsibility

From June 20th, every organisation that originates ACH payments must have documented, risk-based processes to identify potential fraudulent payments - covering 35.2 billion ACH payments worth $93 trillion in 2025.

Idan Hayon

August 14, 2026

AI Is Changing the Speed at Which Fraud Evolves

Visa detected around $1 billion in scam transactions in H2 2025. AI-enabled scams drove nearly 20% higher losses year over year. The real shift isn’t just more fraud - it’s how fast fraud adapts.

Idan Hayon

August 12, 2026

Fraud Acts Must Evolve - Or They Become Ineffective

Most fraud acts start with a real problem and work at first. Then fraudsters adapt and the act stays frozen - until systems fill with controls written for problems that no longer exist.

Idan Hayon

August 10, 2026

The biggest revenue leak in your business might not be fraud. It might be false positives.

Most merchants know exactly how much fraud they lost last month. Very few know how much revenue they lost by declining legitimate customers - the hidden cost of fraud prevention.

Idan Hayon

July 31, 2026

85% of e-commerce professionals say balancing fraud prevention with customer experience is one of their biggest challenges.

The real problem isn’t only the balance - it’s that most merchants can’t tell whether they’re getting it right. Chargebacks and block rates are visible; which rules help vs hurt usually isn’t.

Idan Hayon

July 29, 2026

News4 min read

Consumers lost $2.1 billion to scams that started on social media last year.

Meta Facebook accounted for more reported scam losses than any other social platform - but by the time payment hits a bank or PSP, the scam often already looks like a normal authorized transaction.

Idan Hayon

July 28, 2026

The biggest mistake in fraud analysis is trusting individual indicators

High amount, disposable email, new device, VPN - none of those signals mean much alone. Good fraud analysis asks whether the red flags tell a coherent fraud story.

Idan Hayon

July 22, 2026

In fraud the same behaviour can be fraudulent in one business and completely legitimate in another

A sneaker-drop “bot attack” that looked like fraud was actually top customers. Context - not raw anomalies - decides what a fraud rule should do.

Idan Hayon

July 20, 2026

One thing that often gets overlooked in fraud prevention is your fraud system might be your biggest revenue leak

Fraud losses are visible. Revenue lost to false positives usually is not. The biggest gains often come from removing friction that no longer helps.

Idan Hayon

July 16, 2026

Education3 min read

I’ve worked with companies doing $1B+ in revenue with a 2-person fraud team

Fraud often stays reactive until volume and complexity break the setup. Team size matters less than clear logic, measurable signals, and structured systems.

Idan Hayon

July 14, 2026

Guide8 min read

How to Reduce Chargebacks on Shopify (2026 Guide)

A practical 2026 guide for Shopify merchants: understand why chargebacks happen, tune Shopify Protect rules using your own data, and reduce disputes without increasing false declines.

Idan Hayon

July 13, 2026

Insights4 min read

Should you build your own fraud system or buy a solution?

When chargebacks rise and approval rates drop, the default reaction is to find a tool. But the right answer depends on what you should control versus what you can delegate - and most teams land somewhere in between.

Idan Hayon

July 9, 2026

How to audit your fraud acts in ~30 minutes. Here's how I usually approach it.

A practical 7-step framework to audit your fraud rules in about 30 minutes - map what you have, check impact, find overlap, review false positives, and identify what to remove, adjust, or rebuild.

Idan Hayon

July 8, 2026

Product4 min read

FraudPulse Doesn't Replace Stripe Radar or Shopify Protect. Here's What It Does Instead.

One of the biggest misconceptions we hear is that FraudPulse replaces fraud consoles such as Stripe Radar or Shopify Protect. It doesn't - and here's why that distinction matters.

Idan Hayon

July 2, 2026

News4 min read

Visa Reduced the Excessive Merchant Threshold from 2.2% to 1.5% Overnight

On April 1st, Visa reduced the VAMP excessive merchant threshold from 2.20% to 1.50% - a 32% reduction overnight. Here's what it means for how merchants need to think about risk management.

Idan Hayon

June 30, 2026

Product3 min read

Demonstrating FraudPulse: From Data to Actionable Fraud Insights in Minutes

The idea behind FraudPulse is to make fraud analysis usable from day one - no complex setup, no technical barriers. Here's exactly how it works.

Idan Hayon

June 25, 2026

Fraud Trends 2026: Deepfakes, AI Agents, and the Sophistication Shift

Fraud losses are up 25%, deepfake attempts up 94%, and sophisticated fraud up 180%. Here are the five trends shaping how fraud is executed in 2026 - and what merchants need to watch.

Idan Hayon

June 16, 2026

Insights4 min read

Why is up to 30-90% of fraud often classified as friendly fraud?

As strange as the name sounds, friendly fraud is when a legitimate cardholder disputes a transaction they actually made. Depending on the industry, it can account for 30% to 90% of all fraud cases - and it requires a very different response.

Idan Hayon

June 7, 2026

Product5 min read

After 12 Years in Fintech, Here's Why We Built FraudPulse

After 12 years across fraud, risk, and data - at Riskified, Melio, and Creednz - one thing became clear: the problem is rarely the system itself. It's how it's understood.

Idan Hayon

June 2, 2026

Overfitting: The Most Common Mistake in eCommerce Fraud Prevention

A fraud pattern appears, pressure builds, and teams react fast - but many of those reactions become too specific. Here's why overfitting is quietly undermining fraud systems everywhere.

Idan Hayon

June 1, 2026