Micro-deposit fraud is an attack strategy that is increasingly affecting financial services and fintech companies. Fraudsters take advantage of micro-deposits issued by online banks, fintechs, and payment companies in the process of account verification. Attackers will create fake accounts at scale to steal the mini deposits (under $1 and as low as $0.02).

While each transfer only costs a few cents, micro-deposit fraud adds up over time causing a plethora of downstream problems such as operational costs dealing with these attacks, increased ACH fees and KYC costs, as well as potential reputational damage. If a customer is a victim of a micro-deposit scam, financial services companies may appear untrustworthy and risk damaging customer relationships.

Arkose Labs for Micro-Deposit Fraud

Arkose Labs is protecting banks and fintechs by eliminating the persistent fake accounts that fuel this fraud, by detecting and challenging activity coming from bots and organized human fraud operations. Its flexible solution can also add protections within the web or mobile application, for example at the “add an account” point, in order to stop malicious activity within these accounts.

New Account Registration

New Account Registration

Arkose Labs is highly effective at preventing bad actors and bots from setting up fake new accounts at scale, which is the root of micro-deposit fraud.

Financial Account Management

Financial Account Management

Arkose Labs provides dynamic protection within websites and apps, through the process of adding and verifying financial account details.

Real-Time Decisioning

Real-Time Decisioning

Arkose Labs provides early protection against downstream micro-deposit losses.

Guaranteed Bot Defense

Guaranteed Bot Defense

Stop fraudsters from scaling up attacks using innovative anti-automation, backed by a commercial guarantee.

Human-Attack Challenges

Human-Attack Challenges

Specialized detection and challenges for organized human fraud rings that are helping fuel these attacks.

Arkose Labs Global Network

Arkose Labs Global Network

Fraud signals are anonymously shared across financial services companies in the network for robust fraud detection.

Other Use Cases

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Fake Account Creation

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Account Takeover

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Inventory Hoarding

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Deliver your inventory into the hands of genuine customers, not bots.

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Fake Listings & Reviews

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Stop Bots, Not Customers with Arkose Labs