Marketplace & Classifieds Security
Protect your platform from fake listings, seller scams, and content scraping to build a trusted community for buyers and sellers.
Secure Your MarketplaceCommon Threats to Online Marketplaces
Listing & Content Scraping
Automated bots steal valuable listing data, pricing information, and user-generated content, diminishing your competitive advantage.
Fake Listings & Ad Fraud
Fraudsters post fake advertisements and listings to scam unsuspecting users, leading to financial loss and damaging platform trust.
Account Takeover (ATO)
Cybercriminals hijack high-reputation seller and buyer accounts to commit fraud, post malicious content, and steal personal information.
The Security Challenge for Online Marketplaces
The success of an online marketplace hinges on the trust between buyers and sellers. Malicious automation erodes this trust, impacting user safety, platform integrity, and business growth.
Protecting Platform Integrity
Ensuring listings are legitimate and posted by real users, not automated bots, is critical for a healthy ecosystem.
Preventing User Scams
Stopping fraudsters from posting fake ads or taking over accounts is essential to protect users from financial loss.
Maintaining Competitive Edge
Preventing rivals from scraping valuable and proprietary listing data is key to staying ahead in the market.
Prevent Content Scraping
Your listings are your most valuable asset. Peakhour's Bot Management solution uses advanced detection techniques to identify and block sophisticated scraping bots, even those that mimic human behaviour or use residential proxies to evade detection.
Protect your intellectual property, maintain your SEO rankings, and keep your competitive advantage.
Stop Fake Listings and Ad Fraud
Preserve the integrity of your marketplace by blocking automated fraudulent submissions. Peakhour's solution analyses a wide range of signals, from IP reputation and network fingerprints to behavioural patterns, to stop bots before they can post malicious content.
Reduce the manual workload on your moderation teams and create a safer environment for your users.
Secure User Accounts
A user's reputation is hard-earned. Protect it with Peakhour's comprehensive account security. We defend against automated account takeover attempts using credential stuffing and other brute-force methods.
Our Breached Credential Scanning and risk-based authentication measures ensure that only legitimate users can access their accounts, building trust and confidence in your platform.
Create a Trusted Marketplace
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