Fraud Shield for WooCommerce

Fraud Shield for WooCommerce protects your store by blocking spam orders and fake user registrations. It validates user registration, billing, and shipping details, as well as technical fields such as IP address, device type, OS, domain, and subdomain.

Fraud Shield for WooCommerce is your smart defence against fake signups and spam orders. It uses intelligent validation across registration, billing, shipping, and technical fields (such as IP, OS, and device type) to block suspicious activity, keeping your store secure and clean.

Types of Fraud Shield Rules

• Block disposable or suspicious email domains
• Detect and block users by IP address, device type (mobile, desktop, bot, etc.)
• Detect and block users by operating system (e.g., Android, Windows, Unknown OS)
• Block spam user registrations using field-level validation
• Prevent fake or suspicious orders by validating checkout fields
• Validate billing and shipping details (name, phone, email, ZIP, etc.)
• Automatically record users who trigger blocked values as “Blocked Users“
• Maintain a Blocked User Log with detailed info (IP, device, OS, etc.)
• Maintain a Debug Log to track validation and blocking events

Why you should add Fraud Shield for WooCommerce

Fraud Shield for WooCommerce is essential for safeguarding your store against the risks of fake sign-ups, spam orders, and fraudulent activities.

By validating user registration details, billing and shipping addresses, and technical parameters such as IP address, device type, operating system, and domain, it prevents suspicious transactions before they impact your business.

Adding Fraud Shield is not just about security — it’s about building trust, maintaining smooth operations, and focusing on growing your business without worrying about threats.

When to add Fraud Shield for WooCommerce

You should add Fraud Shield as soon as you notice or want to prevent suspicious activity in your store. This includes:

• Receiving spam registrations or fake customer accounts.
• Experiencing high-order cancellations or chargebacks.
• Getting orders with incomplete or mismatched billing/shipping details.
• Seeing multiple signups from the same IP or device in a short time.
• Expanding your store to new regions with higher fraud risk.

Installing Fraud Shield early helps you stay ahead of threats, avoid revenue loss, and protect your store’s reputation before problems escalate.

Types of Rules Configurations

Fraud Shield for WooCommerce offers four main types of validation rules to protect your store from spam, fake accounts, and fraudulent orders:

1. Registration Rules: Safeguard your store from fake or spam user signups by validating critical fields during the registration process.
   
   Available settings include username validation to block generic or numeric-only usernames, email username validation to block emails with suspicious local parts, and email domain validation to restrict sign-ups from known spam, disposable, or fake email domains.
   
   
2. Checkout Billing Address Rules: Validate billing details during checkout to prevent fake orders and suspicious transactions. These rules identify incomplete, invalid, or mismatched billing data, stopping fraud before it reaches payment processing.
   
   Available settings cover validation for billing details, including name, address, city, state, country, postal code, email, phone number, and company. This helps block fake, invalid, or disposable information to maintain data accuracy and prevent fraudulent or low-quality orders.
   
   
3. Checkout Shipping Address Rules: Ensure shipping details are accurate and legitimate. By blocking fake or bot-generated addresses, these rules reduce delivery issues, save fulfilment costs, and maintain a smooth order experience for genuine customers.
   
   Available settings cover validation for shipping details, including first and last names, address, city, state, country, postal code, phone number, and company. This ensures the blocking of fake, invalid, or suspicious entries to maintain accurate and trustworthy order information.
   
   
4. Technical Rules: Go beyond basic form validation with system-level checks. Technical rules verify IP addresses, browsers, device types, and other metadata to detect patterns linked to fraudulent behavior. This adds a powerful, invisible layer of protection that works in real time.
   
   Available settings include validation for IP address, device, browser, operating system, email domain, user role, and user ID, allowing you to block traffic from suspicious sources, outdated systems, disposable email domains, restricted user roles, or known spam accounts.

With these four layers of configurable rules, Fraud Shield provides precise, proactive control over fraud prevention, helping you block bad actors without disrupting genuine customers.

Global Settings

The General Settings section allows store owners to manage the core functionality of the Fraud Shield for WooCommerce plugin.

It provides global controls to enable or disable the plugin, configure how fraud detection rules behave, and manage logging for security insights and debugging.
These settings help ensure that validation rules are applied efficiently while offering visibility into all blocked attempts.

Blocked User Section

The “Blocked User” section of the Fraud Shield for WooCommerce plugin offers a comprehensive dashboard that lists all users who were blocked due to failing fraud detection rules during registration or checkout.