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Blocklists

Use blocklists to prevent fraud and criminal activity. Blocklists are lists of customer attribute values that are blocked from buying from you. For example, if a customer attempts to make a purchase from you with a credit card or fingerprint that is in a blocklist, the transaction is blocked and will not be processed.

Before a new transaction is processed in Rebilly, blocklists are examined to check for attributes related to the entity. If a match is detected, the operation is aborted.

Blocklist attributes

Rebilly provides the following blocklist attributes:

  • Customer IP address: IP address of the customer making the purchase.
  • Customer email: Email address of the customer making the purchase.
  • Customer ID: Rebilly customerId of the customer making the purchase.
  • Payment card: Payment card number being charged.
  • Payment card BIN: The Bank Identification Number (BIN) of the payment card being charged.
  • Device fingerprint: A string holding information about the software and the device used by the customer making the purchase.
  • Country: Country where the customer is making the purchase, and of the payment card billing address.
  • Address: House number and ZIP code of the customer's address.

Create a blocklist

This process describes how to create a blocklist based on specific customer attributes. All actions and events associated with the blocklist will not be processed in Rebilly for a set period of time, or permanently if you choose it.

  1. In the left navigation bar, click Automations .
  2. In the Risk section, click Blocklists.
  3. Click Create blocklist.
  4. In the Blocklist type dropdown, select an attributes to blocklist.
  5. Enter blocklist attribute information.
  6. In the TTL (Time to Live) field:
    • To create a temporary entry, enter a value in seconds.
    • To create a permanent blocklist, enter 0 or leave this field blank.
  7. Click Save blocklist.

View active blocklists

  1. In the left navigation bar, click Automations .
  2. In the Risk section, click Blocklists.

Create event based blocklists

To automatically add customer attributes to blocklists when specific events occur, see Blocklist actions.

Manually blocklist a customer

To manually add customer data to a blocklist, see Add customer data to a blocklist.