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Find Fraudulent Constituent Accounts

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Card card thieves sometimes use forms to test stolen cards. Fraudulent transactions are not an attack against your database, and your database information is still secure. However, these transactions add unwanted information to your database and make extra work for you.

You can run a report to review potentially fraudulent accounts. The report searches for constituent names that include certain top-level domains (the last part of a domain name).

To run the report:

  1. Click Reports.

  2. Click New Report.

  3. Click Build a Report from Scratch.

  4. Click Constituents.

  5. In the Include section, click Add Filter.

  6. Search for and select Name.

  7. In the Name Contains text box, enter https:

  8. Click OK.

  9. Click Or.

  10. For each of these top-level domains, repeat steps 6 through 9:

    • .biz

    • .co

    • .edu

    • .gov

    • .info

    • .io

    • .me

    • .net

    • .org

    • .ru

    • .us

  11. Save your report. Your filters should look like this:

  12. Review the report results.

  13. Delete any fraudulent accounts.
    Important: Do not click any URLs that appear.

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