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Tom Mahoney
Primary Use: Fraud Prevention
Sites Tracked: 3

Tom Mahoney is the primary author/developer of Preventing E-Commerce Chargebacks and the Founder and Director of Merchant 911.org, the largest Internet information exchange for E-merchants seeking to prevent E-Commerce chargebacks.

Tom combines seven years in law enforcement, 20 years as a computer network professional, and the horror stories of over 3400 E-Commerce merchants who belong to Merchant 911.org to provide a unique "in-the trenches" perspective on fraud prevention.


I've used the service almost since the day you gave me the account. It appears to be everything you say it is. We've had only one fraudulent transaction on the preventchargebacks.com site and that was my fault for not catching it.

Since using your service on the Merchant911 site, my application screening has been easier - I get hardly any apps with just garbage entered.


Phil and Clara McKinney
Primary Use: Fraud Prevention
Sites Tracked: 3

MaxPatch Ink Supplies is a family business founded in 1999, dedicated to providing 'Top Notch' and easy to use alternatives to expensive OEM inkjet printer supplies.

Clara is the 'Web-mistress' and has extensive accounting experience, amongst the many other things she does to make MaxPatch Ink run smoothly. Phil is past Vice-Chair of the Madison County, NC Chamber Of Commerce. He also lectured and provided support for small businesses at the Mountain Microenterprise Fund for Western North Carolina.

Your GeoDetector service kept us from literally pulling our hair out!

We own and operate an ecommerce printer supplies business, MaxPatch Ink. About seven months ago we had what seemed like an invasion of "card checkers". They were adding an item or two to the shopping cart and then entering random credit card nubers until they found ones that were "legit". We're not talking just a few but hundreds at a time! The cards were never charged as it only gives an "authorization" to do so. Needless to say, it took hours (each day) to delete from the server. We were at our wits end.... Then we discovered GeoDetector!

We contacted Tom Mahoney at Merchant911.org for some advice and he referred us to GeoDetector. After signing up for the GeoDetector service and simply installing some script on our web pages, the invasion stopped. Period. Selecting the geolocations we wanted to block (via the easy-to-use interface) was a snap!

Mo more hair pulling and lost hours. We continue to use this valuable service!

P.S. - We really like the new GeoDetector 2.0, with even more controls.


Peter Bradford
Primary Use: Tracking Advertising
Sites Tracked: 600+
Peter Bradford
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Peter Bradford

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Peter Bradford is the executive Vice President and founder of Peak Impact Inc, a Canadian company that specializes in lead generation. Their proprietary lead generation systems provide thousands of customers with real-time business leads and web site traffic.

Peter is also an expert in marketing and online traffic monetization. His background includes business development, sales, and management.

"Our company has about 660 domains. I was really impressed with the first day when we put on the Geo Detector code. We were able to able to pinpoint every visitor across all of our domains to see right where they were coming from, right down to the city.

"I also love the reports! In the first day I noticed 3% of all of my traffic was coming from high fraud regions, which was really interesting to see. It's also enabled me to better target my advertising to certain regions. When we do a national campaign I just take a bit of code from Geo Detector and put in on that landing page. Then I can see where all the traffic is coming from so that the next time I run that campaign I can target my marketing dollars to the most profitable regions.

"Overall, this tool has really helped us with both our fraud screening and to do more cost-effective marketing. I look forward to the continued use and future enhancements of Geo Detector."


JB McKee
Primary Use: Fraud Prevention
Sites Tracked: 1,000+
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JB McKee is the CEO and Founder of FusionQuest, Inc, an affiliate network of over 40,000 publishers. He has been in the affiliate marketing industry for over 10 years.

JB pioneered the UltraLinks clean link technology for affiliate software, which uses direct links in order to improve merchant page rankings. His background is in mechanical engineering and web software developemnt.


I service a network of 40,000 online affiliates. I'm excited about giving all of my merchants the ability to track all of their traffic regionally. It's going to help them immediately determine where a potential affiliate is located and block any from high fraud regions. This is big issue in the affiliate marketing industry.

"Now instead of just asking an affiliate where they are located the merchant can absolutely verify the truth of that statement before opening their programs to fraudulent activity. This is an industry wide challenge that costs affiliate marketers hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. With Geo Detector, we're going to put a stop to a lot of that. Keep up the great work!"