Pre-Survey Fraud Prevention
(Powered by our Research Defender)
Block fraudsters before they get into your survey
Our pre-survey fraud prevention sits at the front door. Every respondent gets scanned and scored against 130+ signals in milliseconds. Known fraudsters, bots, VPN users, and hyperactive respondents get blocked before they touch your questionnaire. We scan and score 5 billion survey attempts annually, giving us visibility into fraud patterns that no one else in the industry can match.
Fraud stops at the front door
Fraud Volume Met Head-On
We screen every entry up front, so incentive collectors are stopped before they reach your survey. LLMs have made survey fraud easy to commit at scale, with respondents attempting 50, 100, even 1,178 surveys in a single day and median attempts of 6 to 33 across major panels.
Disguised Identities Exposed
Our pre-survey fraud prevention catches fraudsters across the entire ecosystem, not just within a single survey. They use VPNs, emulators, suspicious tech combos, and multiple identities to slip past basic screening and standard fingerprinting, and we surface them anyway.
Brand Metrics You Can Trust
By blocking fraudulent respondents before entry, we protect the integrity of your metrics and the strategic decisions that ride on them. Those respondents add noise to some questions and wild bias to others, and you never know which, so we keep them out of your data entirely.
Capabilities
How Rep Data solves it
130+ Signal Digital Fingerprint
Deep session profiles built from hardware, software, browser data, and WebRTC overlays combined with fraud history. This is the most complete pre-survey scan in the industry.
No-Fly Fraud Suppression List
The industry's first unified fraudster suppression list. Once a repeat fraudster is identified, they are blocked everywhere. Updated daily as new fraud signals emerge across the ecosystem.
Hyperactivity Detection
Unique to pre-survey fraud prevention. With more scans and scores than any fraud tool in research, we see when a respondent has attempted 30, 50, or 100+ surveys in a 24-hour period. Most providers miss this entirely.
8 External Reputation Databases
We subscribe to 8 external databases across e-commerce, fintech, and martech. Most platforms use 1, maybe 2. This gives us a broader reputation shield across B2B and B2C studies.
How It Works
Simple to implement, powerful in practice
Add a Single Redirect
Drop a URL redirect or code snippet into your survey flow. Native integration with Decipher requires zero code. Works with Qualtrics, Confirmit, SurveyGizmo, and custom platforms.
Scan and Score in Milliseconds
Each respondent is scored against 130+ signals instantly. If the scan takes more than 2-3 seconds, we pass them through as a failsafe to protect the respondent experience. Bad actors get blocked. Qualified respondents pass through.
Full Transparency
See exactly who was blocked and why. Every respondent gets a threat potential score that combines digital fingerprint signals, reputation data, hyperactivity, and fraud history into a single number.
Why Rep Data's Research Defender
Rep Data vs. the status quo
Client Results
Trusted by leading research teams
“We hoped to access higher quality respondents. Not only have those expectations been met, they've been exceeded.”
Steve Mushkin
Founder, Latitude
“We trust that the data Rep Data is giving us is clean, real and representative. I even recommended their services to my previous employer.”
Ben Winston
Senior Director, ClearPath Strategies
“We did a couple of tests and the data was so much better that we were instantly sold. They're now our primary provider.”
Scott Rasmussen
Founder, RMG Research