Understanding impossible travel detection in Verisoul fraud prevention
Impossible travel detection is a sophisticated fraud prevention technique that identifies physically impossible location changes within a short timeframe, helping to detect account takeovers and shared accounts.
Impossible travel occurs when a user appears to move between geographic locations at a speed that would be physically impossible. For example, if a user logs in from New York and then, 30 minutes later, logs in from Tokyo, this would be flagged as impossible travel since no commercial flight could cover that distance in such a short time.