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Fraud Defender

Fraud attacks are on the rise — and these events can cost your business both financially and by severely impacting your brand and reputation. That’s where Vonage Fraud Defender comes in. It’s a user-friendly fraud alerting and blocking solution compatible with SMS and voice traffic.

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Fraud Defender Advanced has saved customers over $1 million. Savings claim is based on the total cumulative cost savings realized by actual Vonage customers as of January 2025.

*Savings claim is based on the total cumulative cost savings realized by actual Vonage customers as of January 2025.

 

A comprehensive, end-to-end fraud prevention solution

Protect revenue and reputation

Minimize ongoing attacks with active fraud prevention to protect your brand and end users

Real-time alerts and blocking

Set up automatic blocking and/or notifications of suspicious traffic based on your preferences

Reduce operational costs

Create rules to control risk exposure with a dashboard and customizable settings

Fraud Defender Features

Protect against fraud with this easy-to-implement alert and blocking system. 

  • Implement real-time monitoring, alerting and notifications to help stop fraudulent activity in its tracks for SMS and voice (including Verify 2FA) traffic.

  • Mitigate risk exposure with flexible rules and settings via the Vonage dashboard based on your specific needs.

  • Set up controls to determine what actions to take by account, country, and network.

  • Leverage built-in templates and recommendations to filter traffic from high-risk countries.

  • Stop high-volume Artificially Inflated Traffic (AIT) with alerts and traffic burst protection.

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Protect your revenue by upgrading to Fraud Defender Advanced

Fraudsters generate high volumes of fake traffic via mobile applications or websites. Last year, up to 35.7 billion fraudulent Artificially Inflated Traffic (AIT) messages were sent, with brands incurring costs of $1.16 billion due to fraudulent messages. Fraud Defender Advanced empowers you to mitigate the economical impact of AIT attacks.

  • 35.7bn AIT messages sent annually

  • $1.16bn Annual cost of AIT attacks

  • 4.8% of global messaging is fraudulent

 

 

Own Your Security and safeguard both your business and your customers

Simple, Transparent Pricing. Serious Fraud Protection.​

Compare plans for Messaging & Voice APIs, or see how the Verify API includes Advanced protection at no cost with fraudulent traffic fully covered​

Protection Features

Standard

Advanced

Premium

Messaging & Voice APIs​

No charge

$47 / €40 /mo
90% savings on blocked traffic*​

$234 / €200 /mo
90% savings on blocked traffic*​

Verify API**​

Not applicable

No Cost​
100% savings on blocked traffic​

$187 / €160 /mo​
100% savings on blocked traffic​

Volumetric Fraud Alerts

Manual Traffic Rules (Allow/Block)

Alert Actions (basic automation)

Country Blocks by Name

Artificially Inflated Traffic (AIT) Alerts

SMS Burst Protection

Network Blocks

Network Volume Alerts

Trusted Numbers

Custom Alerts

*Usage-based savings (Messaging & Voice): With Fraud Defender AIT Protection, Vonage automatically blocks fraudulent traffic, avoiding the full cost of standard fraudulent traffic fees. Users pay only 10% of standard fraudulent traffic fee totals, resulting in a 90% reduction of cost.​

**With the Verify API: fraudulent traffic is covered in full (100%), with no usage fee, and the Advanced subscription fee is waived.​

 

 

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Your Guide to A2P Messaging Fraud Prevention

Fraud within the A2P (application-to-person) messaging industry is on the rise. Find out how you can combat it.

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