A presentation with Sarah Sheldon, Associate Director of eCommerce of Rebecca Minkoff, and Sarah Roden, Account Manager at Riskified, on eCommerce fraud prevention.
7. Immediate Results
** Launching Riskified in May!
• Reduced chargebacks by 84% between April and May
• Reduced chargebacks by 87% YoY
8. Where Are We Now?
• 97.6% approval rating and 0.02% chargebacks for 1H17
• ZERO chargebacks since February 2017
• Happy Banks + Happy Customers = Happy Employees +
CEO
9. Why Should You Care?
3. Resources
1. Protection of customer
2. Cost
4. Data integrity
14. Bolster your
manual review team
Longer review
& fulfillment times
Pay for more
enrichment tools
Hire, Train,
Maintain
15. Add new filters
& update rules
More out of pocket
to maintain system
Dev & maintenance
resources
16. Rise in false
declines rate
Customer support
takes the heat
Lost sales & revenue
Customers go to competitors
Brand reputation impacted
17. The Result
A heavy operation that is expensive to maintain, less
scalable, and can’t be easily expanded to new
segments, markets or payment methods
18. Which Order Would You Approve?
Different billing & shipping personas
Canadian billing address, US shipping
address
No AVS match
Shipping address linked to
a drop-off/re-shipper
Large IP/billing distance
Returning customer
Merchant-issued credit card
Billing/Shipping address match
Safe email address with name that matches
billing entity
IP close to shipping/billing address
Order A Order B
20. Data points have dynamic, varying weight in different scenarios
Adopt a Holistic View
• Mismatches are standard for gift orders
• US re-shipper + International CC = legitimate pattern
• Proxy + China make sense when they’re together
21. Compare multiple data points to cover legitimate deviation
Benchmark
• Identify anomalous behavior (fraud rings)
• Recognize returning customers even if
they changed their name or moved
23. Blacklists can’t substitute a comprehensive fraud review process
Ditch the List
• Blacklists tarnish entire buildings, dorms,
reshippers
• With whitelists, Account Takeover attacks hit
harder
24.
25. International credit cards are lucrative and
safe
Embrace International Business
• Many merchants decline international payment
methods or orders from specific countries
• For many US merchants, ~10% of order
volume comes in from overseas
26. Others have likely faced the problems you’re encountering
Learn From Your Peers
• Join the MRC community and talk with merchants
• Compare stats with colleagues in your industry
or in a vertical that carries similar risk
29. Order Example: $148 Rebecca Minkoff Bag
Different billing & shipping personas
Canadian billing address, US shipping address
No AVS match
Shipping address linked to a drop-off/re-shipper
Large IP/billing distance
Detractors:
30.
31. Fraud Review with Sharp Vision
IP address associated
with corporate domain
Shipping address adjacent
to border (Detroit)
Canadian taking advantage of
free shipping in the US
Billing persona linked to domain
(employer) via LinkedIn
32.
33. Order example: 5 $1,500 MacBook Pros
Returning customer
Merchant-issued credit card
Billing/Shipping address match
Safe email address with name that matches billing entity
IP close to shipping/billing address
Protractors:
34.
35. Fraud Ring/ATO Identification Tools
High velocity alert
(email domain, product, premium
shipping)
Order parameters link to
fraud ring/ATO activity
This order + ensuing orders were
declined and affected merchants were alerted
In 2005, Rebecca designed her first handbag, which she soon dubbed the “Morning After Bag,” a.k.a. the “M.A.B.” This iconic bag ignited Rebecca’s career as a handbag designer and inspired her “downtown romantic”-themed designs in the years to come. Rebecca’s success was further enhanced by the support of her brother and the company’s CEO and co-founder, Uri Minkoff, who helped usher in and pioneer the company’s industry-leading social media efforts. + putting customers up front & center (drives the company goals)
Today, Rebecca Minkoff is a global lifestyle brand with a wide range of apparel, handbags, footwear, jewelry, accessories (including tech), and watches, as well as men’s clothing and accessories under the label Uri Minkoff. The brand has four domestic retail stores, two international locations, and is distributed in over 900 stores worldwide. Uri Minkoff, a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Rebecca Minkoff, by a female millennial designer. Uri is well known as the most forward thinking CEO in fashion, especially when it comes to the innovative use of new technologies and the omnichannel customer experience. He is a highly sought after speaker on the nexus between fashion, retail and emerging technologies. Uri founded the company in 2005 with his sister Rebecca and also serves as the Creative Director for the brand’s men’s line.
Long before I arrived, we were offered a fraud management system … for FREE
Rules were in place, but there was no proactive way of managing fraud
Each time there was an issue, it was reactive tweaking done to the system – very manual and very costly to the company
eCOMM team had 2 goals when they set out for a new partner:
1. need a proactive fraud management partner to help us prevent fraud
2. that would also have a favorable acceptance rate
May 2016 RM officially launched with Riskified and IMMEDIATELY saw a drop in chargebacks
Why Care?
Protection of Customer – she trusts us enough to come to the site and enter her information – retail on a website – treat your customers well
Costs you too much not to care –chargebacks to your bottom line
Resources wasted on managing chargebacks, managing rules, managing orders – (vs. creating revenue generating business opportunities)
Data integrity – bad customers in, bad programs out. How can teams properly manage marketing and customer segments if the wrong customers get to purchase and the right ones get blocked out?
RM had great results, not unique to them, this is how you can do it too
Intro – AM, work with RM, many verticle, work analysts, provide insights
Help partners reach KPIs because everyone comes to Riskified for different reasons – diff goals in mind
Open discussion
Biggest challenge currently facing in ecomm
We all know fraud is big headache
Fraud increases as online presence grows
Ill-equipped to catch fraud --> chargebacks grow
Unpredictable costs that can detrimental to margins
Leaving ourselves to ask, how to stop fraud?
So one way/option
Bolster manual review team-
expensive to maintain
Spending on salaries, plus data enrichment tools to help the people you have hired
Demanding 24/7 job
Results to lag to get orders to fulfillment
Another method for managing fraud
Adding filters and rules as time goes on to streamline review process
But, this requires dev resources and ultimately leaves good orders on the table
Discover certain patterns on fraudulent orders; billing shipping mismatch, AVS, CVV, the works
Takes time to
Balancing act of fighting fraud but not declining good orders
At the end of the day, Customer support takes the heat from legit customers who have been declined
To sum it up, you've ended up with a bulky and expesnive process
Will get back to it
Raise hand
Fraud is complicated Day to day for many of you
Share some best practices from our experience
Achieve growth like RM while mitigating fraud
I’m sure most of you know how hard it is to manage fraud in-house
Now, share some best practices we’ve learned
Industry experts in combatting these issues
Want to share tips with you
One of the strategy YOU should do
Avoid declining an order based on one data point because it doesn’t tell the whole story
name, address, email, cc, IP, device, product, shipping type,
To ensure you don't decline an order based on a single data point,
Work email or personal email
A visual to discuss the complexity of fraud, and how it is sometimes not a clear Yes/No, rather a complex statistical analysis
These are just 16 of several hundred features that make up each Riskified model that decides orders.
Visualization of a model
Helps us connect the dots
No one feature can decide an order on its own
Blacklists and whitelists are sloppy substitutes for fraud review
Recent ATO- d-link webcam being used as proxy, looks like you’re browsing from computer itself
We saw it on electronics and gold, gift cards
This I how sophisticated a fraud ring can be…
Beacon identified this as a proxy
You’re all here to grow your business , fraud management should helpyou do that, not impede it
Int’l CC versus int’l shipping
We’re fortunate enoughto have big base of int’l orders
Find that many American e-comm companies shy away from international shipping or accepting int’l CC
Europeans spend more from US sites, to make the more expensive shipping have less impact
Growth strategy
Considering int’l ….
Some countris have bad reputation
Because Riskified works partners with many companies outside the US, we have a large base of good customers around the world.
We know these good customers are out there, would be a shame to deny them
Merchant risk council , or other forums
-fraud review holistic process
-ditch the lists
-think international