Case Study
Donately Leverages PerimeterX Bot Defender to Fight Fraud and Carding Bot Attacks
Case Study Problem As a donation software service, one of Donately’s objectives is the security of all transactions. Nonprofit organizations are a common target for online fraud since they process large amounts of online donations. Nonprofits rely on Donately to reduce payment fraud and eliminate chargebacks related to carding attacks. “ We were spending a lot of time dealing with the bot problem and managing fraud resulting from carding attacks instead of adding functionality to our software and investing in our business.” Bryan Shanaver, CEO at Donately To avoid fraudulent transactions, Donately has always dealt with massive bot-driven attacks by blocking activity from locations where they didn’t expect user activity, such as Russia and the far east. Later the team started to see