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Wolfpaw Hosting LLC has been a Miva Merchant Development partner since 1999 specializing in general and custom modules for all Miva versions. If you need Miva Merchant to perform a specific function or integrate with an in-house system please contact us with your requirements and we'll provide a quote for a custom module.  

WolfPaw's Fraud Screening and Detection - Version 10.5

The credit card fraud solution trusted by Miva in their own stores, by apps.miva.com, and by hundreds of merchants worldwide.

Stop fraudulent orders before they cost you money. WolfPaw's Fraud Screening module integrates MaxMind's industry-leading minFraud system with your Miva Merchant store, analyzing every potential order in real-time — before it reaches your payment gateway.

The module automatically:

• Declines high-risk orders before they incur gateway fees or chargebacks
• Sends detailed email alerts with complete fraud analysis for manual review
• Whitelists trusted IPs so phone and manual orders bypass screening
• Prevents fraud orders from reserving or depleting inventory
• Blocks specific countries using your MaxMind account settings

What Merchants Are Saying:

"I can't imagine a merchant wanting to be online without this fraud protection module."
— Rick Wilson, CEO, Miva Inc.

"Some criminal was using my website to test credit card numbers. Your module has saved my business."
— Joe Knoche, Echo Records

"We have been using your app for four years and have not had a chargeback. Love it."
— Bob Tenney, thethreadexchange.com

"I've been using this module VERY successfully for several years now in our Miva store."
— Cale Reeder, cozywinters.com

New in Version 10.5

Professional HTML Email Notifications — Beautiful, responsive email templates with color-coded alerts (red for declined, green for accepted, teal for whitelisted). Includes complete order details, customer info, shipping/billing addresses, and MaxMind analysis.

Redesigned Admin Interface — Modern card-based layout with clear visual organization. Settings grouped logically with helpful descriptions. One-click Test Connection button verifies your MaxMind credentials instantly.

CIDR Notation for IP Whitelisting — Unified IPv4/IPv6 whitelist field supports standard CIDR notation. Whitelist entire networks with entries like 192.168.1.0/24 or 2001:db8::/32.

Enhanced IP Detection — Automatically detects customer IPs behind CloudFlare, Akamai, nginx, and other services. Checks CF-Connecting-IP, True-Client-IP, X-Real-IP, and X-Forwarded-For headers.

Improved Logging — Pretty-printed JSON output for MaxMind API requests and responses. Consistent timestamp formatting makes it easy to troubleshoot issues. Automatic rotation at 100MB keeps things manageable.

Query Caching — Save money on MaxMind queries. When customers browse, add items, and check shipping costs, cached results are reused unless address information changes. Configurable expiration from 0-60 minutes.

Continuing Features

Two Module Versions — System Extension for standard stores, plus a Component/Item version for custom one-page checkouts or heavily modified stores.

Three minFraud Service Levels — Choose Score (basic risk score), Insights (detailed risk factors), or Factors (complete analysis). Switch anytime based on your needs.

IPv6 compatibility — a top asked-for feature. Allows analysis of IPv6 incoming connections and IPv6 whitelisting.

Country Blocking — Configure blocked countries in your MaxMind account. Blocked countries automatically receive 100% risk scores.

How minFraud Works

MaxMind's minFraud system analyzes over 80 fraud indicators for each transaction, including geographic distance between the customer's IP and billing address, high-risk IP analysis, open proxy detection, free/high-risk email identification, phone number verification, shipping remailer detection, and behavioral patterns. The result is a risk score from 0-100% indicating the probability that an order is fraudulent.

You set your thresholds for email notifications and automatic declines. The module handles everything else — protecting your business while legitimate customers check out normally.

This module will help stop credit card testing and fraudulent orders. It can save you money on authorization fees, improve your merchant decline ratio, refund ratio and chargebacks - and may qualify you for lower credit card fees. The module sends merchants a fraud analysis email for each potential order or for only those exceed that exceed a preset risk score. If desired, the module can also reject potential orders that exceed a preset risk score before reaching the payment gateway.

Fraud screening includes analysis of numerous factors including the geographical distance between the location of the customer's browser to the claimed billing city, state and country; high risk IP address analysis; location of customer's telephone number and postal code; free and high-risk email address analysis; open proxy detection; shipping remailer detection, and more.