Fraud Record

Installing

gem install fraudrecord

(in Gemfile or .gemspec)

gem 'fraudrecord'

then

require 'fraudrecord'

Usage

First, you will need to create an account on https://www.fraudrecord.com and make a reporter profile. This will create an API key for you. Expose this to your Ruby runtime in the form of an environment variable i.e.

export FRAUD_RECORD_API_KEY=f656a57c78

Secondly, call the query method with a Ruby hash of parameters containing the data you wish to query. This will automatically be salted and hashed before being submitted to Fraud Record.

Fraudrecord.query name: 'Billy Jones', email: '[email protected]'
=> {:value=>30, :count=>3, :reliability=>8.2, :report=>"https://www.fraudrecord.com/api/?showreport=2bbf78f6f8"}

Fraud Record accepts variables as long as the variable name consists of [a-z] characters, 16 characters max. Uppercase variables will be converted to lowercase internally. The dash (hyphen) character is also accepted. For example, "paypal-email" is a valid variable name.

There is also a common set of accepted variables to choose from:

Variable Name	Description
name	Client name.
password	Client password. Usually a good indicator of identity.
company	Company name which the client inputs.
email	Client's email address.
address	Client's postal address.
phone	Client's phone number.
ip	Client's registration IP address.
hostname	Hostname for server clients.
accountuser	Hosting account username.
accountpass	Hosting account password.
domain	Domain name of the hosting client.
payment	Payment processor identification, e.g. paypal email address
ccname	Name on credit card
ccnumber	Credit card number.

To learn more, please read https://www.fraudrecord.com/developers.