High-Risk Events

Detect High-Risk Events. Score Every Visit

Detect Multi-accounting, Account sharing, Impossible travel, and Account takeover out of the box, each with Medium or High confidence

ShieldLabs High-Risk Events hero showing one user account with linked events branching outward

More revenue from real customers

Block abuse rings before they flood the funnel with accounts that will never pay

Less money lost to abuse and fraud

Catch multi-accounting and promo abuse before they drain margins

Acquisition budget spent on real users

Know which signups are fraudulent before spend is wasted

Growth metrics worth acting on

Separate real signups from fake ones so CAC, LTV, and conversion data reflects reality

Four High-Risk Events, ready out of the box

Ready out of the box

Detect the four most common account-level risks from day one, with no rule setup

Hidden connections, made visible

Link accounts, devices, and visitors so shared, farmed, and hijacked accounts surface directly

Confidence on every event

Each High-Risk Event comes with Medium or High confidence, separate from the Risk Score of each visit

All High-Risk Events, one view

Track events, affected accounts, and confidence over time in the analytics dashboard, API, and webhooks

High-Risk Events · last 7 days · 4 events · 2,941 hits

Multi-accounting

One person running several accounts

1,284HIGH

Account takeover

Account accessed by someone other than its owner

842HIGH

Impossible travel

Locations too far apart for the time between them

517MEDIUM

Account sharing

One account used by several people

298HIGH
no events ·12,847medium confidence ·517high confidence ·2,424

From first visit to detected High-Risk Event

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Persistent identity

Identify users across sessions, even with cleared cookies and rotated IPs

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Signal collection

Collect 300+ signals across device, browser, OS, IP, and network layers, including risk signals

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High-Risk Event detection

Link user accounts, visitors, and devices over time to detect Multi-accounting, Account sharing, Impossible travel, and Account takeover

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Results in the analytics dashboard

Review each High-Risk Event with its confidence, the accounts involved, and full data per event

Stop abuse in any vertical.

SaaS

Stop trial abuse, freemium exploitation, and plan-limit bypass from accounts that will never pay

iGaming

Eliminate bonus abuse, affiliate fraud, and promo multi-accounting before payouts reach fake accounts

E-commerce

Prevent repeat use of sign-up bonuses, vouchers, and first-time-buyer offers across multiple accounts

Fintech

Stop financial account takeover, scammers exploiting signup bonuses, bypassing KYC through multiple accounts, and abusing referral programs

Cryptocurrency and Web3

Defend airdrops and reward campaigns from sybil attacks and coordinated farming rings

Media and Subscriptions

Detect password sharing and credential reselling before revenue bleeds to free riders

See the High-Risk Events in your traffic.

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Frequently asked questions

High-Risk Events are four detections ShieldLabs runs out of the box across accounts, devices, and visitors: Multi-accounting, Account sharing, Impossible travel, and Account takeover. Multi-accounting: one person running several accounts; Account sharing: one account used by several people or devices; Impossible travel: activity on one account from locations too far apart for the time between them; Account takeover: an account accessed by someone other than its owner. Each event comes with Medium or High confidence and is available in the analytics dashboard, API, and webhooks, ready to use with no rule setup.

A Risk Score rates a single visit; a High-Risk Event describes what is happening to an account across many visits and devices. They are separate axes and work together. Risk Score: a 0-100 rating built from the signals collected on one visit, in three bands, Trusted, Suspicious, and Dangerous; High-Risk Event: one of four account-level detections with Medium or High confidence; Together: the score flags a risky visit in the moment, and the event shows the account-level risk behind it. ShieldLabs shows both side by side in the same analytics dashboard.

Yes. Account takeover is one of the four High-Risk Events ShieldLabs detects directly, including takeovers that follow credential stuffing. Links every login to the devices and locations the account normally uses; Detects access from a new device and a new location that does not fit the owner; Reports the event with Medium or High confidence and the linked account in the analytics dashboard, API, and webhooks. ShieldLabs detects account takeover out of the box, with no custom rules to write.

High-Risk Events appear in real time, as soon as the activity on an account is detected. The first Risk Score is available on the first visit, within roughly 5 minutes of integration. A new visit is scored on arrival; Links between accounts, devices, and visitors update continuously; A detected event shows up immediately with its confidence and the accounts involved. ShieldLabs delivers High-Risk Events to the analytics dashboard, API, and webhooks the moment they are detected, with 99.9% identification accuracy behind them.