ShieldCROSS-MERCHANT FRAUD NETWORK

Confirmed bad actors. Blocked everywhere.

Worthy aggregates fraud intelligence across every merchant on the platform. Before a bad actor enters the network, the case passes evidence review: confirmed chargebacks, confirmed fraud reports, and multi-signal correlation. Only verified threats propagate. The result is a network you can trust, with a false positive rate below five basis points.

Network
Performance

  • Shield

    Network Performance

  • Tick

    0.04% false positive rate

  • Flash

    < 200ms signal propagation

EVIDENCE FIRST. NETWORK SECOND.

A fraud network
you can actually trust

Sharing fraud signals only works if every signal is real. Worthy refuses to propagate a block until the case clears evidence review. The numbers below reflect the network as it ran last month.

Tick CircleINCLUSION PIPELINE

Bad actors don't enter the
network until the evidence holds up

When a charge is flagged at one merchant, that flag stays local. The signal only propagates to the cross-merchant network after the case clears a four-stage evidence pipeline. Confirmed cases enter. Borderline cases stay local. False positives never reach another merchant.

01

Multi-signal correlation

The flagged charge must trigger at least three independent risk signals from different layers (card, device, IP, behavior, velocity).

Predictable Revenue Streams

02

Confirmed adverse outcome

The merchant must confirm the outcome: chargeback received, fraud report filed, or refund issued for confirmed unauthorized use.

Outcome verified

03

Risk team review

Cases that pass automated checks are reviewed by the Worthy risk operations team within four business hours. Manual sign-off is required.

Human in the loop

04

Network propagation

Only after the case clears all three prior stages does the signal propagate. Sub-200ms to every other merchant on the network, with a full audit trail.

Propagated to all

68% flags propagated
29% remain local
3% reversed on review
4h median time to decision

FlashSIGNAL TYPES

Six signal layers, shared across the network

The network does not share one thing. It shares everything that helps the next merchant defend itself. Card history, device patterns, IP behavior, BIN performance, attack signatures, and cross-merchant velocity all flow through the same intelligence layer.

Card reputation

Every hashed card carries a network-wide score. Flagged at one merchant, scored low at every other. Score updates within two hundred milliseconds of any new event.

Device fingerprints

Browsers, mobile devices, and bots get a stable identity across every checkout. Devices banned for fraud at one merchant cannot transact at any other.

IP intelligence

Every IP and IP range carries a reputation score derived from cross-merchant behavior. Datacenter ranges, residential proxies, and known abuse sources stay scored.

BIN analytics

Collective approval rates, decline patterns, and fraud rates per BIN. Issuers and card products get evaluated on the aggregate of millions of transactions, not your own thin history.

Attack signatures

When the network spots a new attack pattern, the signature gets distributed to every Autorisk endpoint. New fraud campaigns get recognized everywhere, not just where they first appeared.

Cross-merchant velocity

One actor hitting many merchants in a short window is invisible to any single shop. The network sees the velocity in aggregate and blocks before the third or fourth merchant gets touched.

Empty ShieldIDENTITY ROTATION DEFENSE

Blocked actors come
back under a different identity

Bad actors who get blocked do not give up. They come back with a new card, a fresh email, a different IP, even a new billing address. The trick: at least one identity attribute almost always stays the same. Worthy correlates every attempt across the full identity graph and keeps blocking, no matter how many surface attributes change.

Persistent attribute (matched across attempts)

Rotated attribute (changed by the actor)

KeyPRIVACY MODEL

The network shares
signal, not data

Sharing fraud intelligence does not mean sharing customer records. Every input to the network gets one-way hashed before it leaves the merchant. Worthy distributes risk scores derived from those hashes. No merchant ever receives another merchant's PII, charge details, or customer identities.

  • One-way hashing. Cards, devices, and emails get hashed at the merchant edge. The raw values never enter the network.

  • Merchant identity stripped. When the signal propagates, no other merchant can trace it back to the source.

  • No PII in transit. Names, addresses, and emails never traverse the network in any form.

  • GDPR and CCPA compliant. The architecture is reviewed against EU and California data regulations on every release.

GlobalOBSERVABILITY

See the network
protecting you in real time

The network dashboard shows every signal arriving from other merchants, every charge it blocked, and every fraud pattern it caught before it spread. Drill into any block to see how the signal reached you.

Laptop CodeDEVELOPER API

Network intelligence exposed on every charge

Every charge response surfaces the network score, the signal type that fired, and the propagation timestamp. Build alerts, audit trails, or custom logic on top.

The network_intelligence object surfaces every reason the network flagged the charge, plus the evidence trail and any identity rotation match.

  • verdict returns clear, monitor, or blocked depending on signal strength and evidence.

  • evidence_summary shows the inclusion pipeline outcome for this actor.

  • identity_rotation lists which persistent attributes matched a known bad actor.

  • propagation_ms shows how fast the original signal reached your endpoint.

// GET /v1/transactions/ch_6FA2B · RESPONSE

const response = {
	id: "ch_6FA2B",
	status: "succeeded",
	amount: 9900,
	cascade: {
		final_status: "recovered",
		total_ms: 312,
		attempts: [
			{
					processor: "processor_1",
					status: "declined",
					decline_code: "05",
					ms: 98
			},
			{
					processor: "processor_2",
					status: "declined",
					decline_code: "61",
					ms: 72
			},
			{
					processor: "processor_3",
					status: "succeeded",
					ms: 142
			}
		]
	}
};

ShieldPAIRS WELL WITH

The network feeds every
other Risk-Worthy product

Autorisk uses network signals on every charge. Velocity Rules apply network-wide thresholds across merchants. Network Tokenization carries the score through the token lifecycle. Account Sharing Detection reads identity rotation matches to flag shared accounts.

Autorisk

Composite ML scoring that reads network intelligence on every charge in under fifty milliseconds.

Cross-Merchant
Fraud Network

Confirmed bad actors at one merchant, blocked across every merchant. Identity rotation defense built in.

Velocity Rules

Cap repeat attempts by card, IP, device, or customer. Card testing defense uses the same engine.

Network
Tokenization

Replace card numbers with tokens that survive reissues and carry the network score forward.

FlashREADY WHEN YOU ARE

Block confirmed bad actors before
they reach your checkout

Apply for a Worthy account and connect to the Cross-Merchant Fraud Network. Every signal that protects you was evidence-reviewed before propagation, with identity rotation defense covering actors who try to come back. Talk to sales for a custom package or volume pricing.