Overview The Business Problem This large social networking site was facing a major issue where fraudsters would employ bots at scale in order to scrape information from the public profiles of real users. For fraudsters, this information could then be used for malicious reasons, such as to create synthetic identities or launch targeted phishing scams. The platform needed to ensure it was protecting its users from downstream abuse. Additionally, user information is core to the business’ commercial viability. Offering products to third parties based on access to user information is the source of revenue for the platform. Therefore, anyone disseminating this information for their own purposes was in fact depriving the networking site of potential revenue millions of dollars. That’s

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