The Why Behind LegitScript
Why LegitScript?
As the leader in merchant and product certification and monitoring in the e-commerce and payment sectors, LegitScript helps companies mitigate risk, build trust, and grow their business.
Our Data, Technology, and People Is What Set Us Apart
We help risk & compliance and trust & safety teams keep ahead of problematic activity, stay updated on emerging trends, and explore growth into new markets.
Our People
We have the industry's largest team of investigative analysts and regulatory experts to provide the most accurate analysis and reporting, ensuring your teams can expand into new markets with confidence.
Our Data
We have spent more than 15 years classifying problematic products, e-commerce listings, and online merchant content to develop the world's most robust data sets of problematic product and merchant activity online.
Our Technology
LegitScript's AI-powered merchant and marketplace intelligence platform ingests millions of data points daily, which are analyzed through our proprietary machine learning to yield relevant and targeted insights.
Multilingual. Multinational. Multitalented.
LegitScript analysts and policy experts come from more than 20 different countries and collectively speak more than 18 languages. We track over 175 regulatory bodies in more than 100 countries, giving our customers the global insight and regulatory expertise to confidently grow their businesses.
Trusted by Industry Leaders
Why trust LegitScript? Because some of the world’s leading organizations already do. That includes Google, Microsoft, and Meta in the online space; Shopify, and North American Bancard in the payments space; and leading trade and advocacy groups in addiction treatment and healthcare.
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Merchant Onboarding Best Practices for an AI-Powered Future
With changing technology making risk more complex, it’s not enough to rely on the same old onboarding processes. Payment service providers looking to stay competitive are investing in new, adaptable tools that can balance speed with accuracy and can evolve as the risk landscape changes.
Tainted Nutraceuticals: Hidden Ingredients, Real Risks
Merchants are facing increasing scrutiny for selling nutraceuticals tainted with harmful ingredients, which poses a challenge to payment processors trying to keep their portfolios free of dangerous products. Keep reading to learn more about the latest problematic products.
Is Kava Legal and Safe? What Merchants and Payment Providers Should Know
As consumers seek natural products with the same efficacy as prescription medications, they may quickly find themselves trying to navigate a landscape of inconsistent regulations and potentially misleading marketing. Among these alternative products is kava — a popular elixir with complicated regulations.
Inside the Minds of Serial Transaction Launderers: How They Evade Detection and What You Can Do About It
Transaction laundering isn’t just an occasional headache—it’s an evolving, persistent threat to payment ecosystems. In our latest webinar, LegitScript dove deep into the world of serial transaction launderers: how they operate, why they reoffend, and what risk teams need to know to catch them.
Telemedicine Compliance: Key Considerations for Payment Service Providers
Telehealth presents an attractive opportunity for payment service providers looking to grow their merchant portfolios, but it is also complex and highly regulated. Learn about the key areas of compliance critical to safely onboarding these merchants.
IDC Spotlight: Leveraging AI to Optimize Merchant Risk Management
In this IDC Spotlight, sponsored by LegitScript, discover how AI and machine learning are revolutionizing merchant risk management in payments. Learn about fraud prevention, compliance, and automated risk assessments to enhance security and efficiency.
Serial Transaction Launderers: How Fraudsters Re-ingest Into Merchant Portfolios and How to Stop Them
Transaction launderers are nothing if not persistent. It’s not enough to catch these fraudsters and expel them from your portfolio because they’ll just try to return. In this webinar, we explore the problem of serial transaction launderers and discuss what you can do to catch them.
How Payments Companies Can Tap into the Booming Telehealth Industry
The telehealth market is booming, set to hit $851B by 2032. Learn how payment companies can navigate compliance and tap into this growing opportunity.
The Challenges and Opportunities of Quantifying Merchant Risk
In this webinar we explore the complexities of assessing merchant risk, and offer insight into building robust risk management frameworks.
The Modern Healthcare Boom: How Payments Companies Can Drive Growth in Telehealth
The healthcare industry is booming but is also complex and highly regulated. In this webinar presented by LegitScript and EMS, we discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by telehealth companies, med spas, and other healthcare businesses.
LegitScript Gives You the Skinny on New Weight Loss Drugs
Discover how the booming GLP-1 weight loss drug market is creating challenges across e-commerce, payments, and social media.
Transaction Laundering: Best Practices for Detection and Mitigation
In this course we discuss the fundamental tactics employed in transaction laundering and share best practices for identifying these fraudsters and mitigating your risk. Register now.
Why Nicotine Pouches Are Drawing So Much Scrutiny
Understand why the FDA is cracking down on certain nicotine pouches and learn what to watch out for.
What Are Merchant Category Codes (MCCs)?
In this article, we’ll explore the role of MCCs in the larger payments ecosystem, and provide a comprehensive list of high-risk MCCs.
LegitScript Supports International Fraud Awareness Week
LegitScript joins the global effort to spread awareness surrounding the detection and prevention of fraud.
The Skinny on New Weight Loss Drugs
Counterfeits, unapproved brands, problematic ads, shady affiliates, and scams are just a few of the problems erupting from the GLP-1 market. In this webinar, we’ll explore how illicit GLP-1 sellers are infiltrating merchant portfolios and e-commerce marketplaces, and share how to stop this risk. Register now.
AI Abuse Among the Top Payments Risks for 2025
LegitScript’s rankings of the top high-risk trends in payments and e-commerce are based on its work monitoring merchants and sellers.
The Top 10 High-risk Trends in Payment Processing and E-commerce
In this updated guide for 2025 and beyond, LegitScript shares new high-risk trends that companies engaged in online transactions should be aware of to avoid expensive assessments levied by card networks for violations. You will also see case studies of problematic merchants and find additional resources to help answer common questions about these trends and how to navigate them.
How a Third-party Merchant Risk Monitoring Solution Can Help
Explore how our solutions help extend internal teams’ bandwidth by flagging merchants in your downstream merchant portfolios.
The Top 10 High-Risk Trends to Watch Out For in 2025
The payments risk and compliance space is dynamic — it must constantly adapt to advancing technologies, changing regulations, criminal innovation, and new products. In this webinar hosted by the Association of Payment Professionals, LegitScript experts share emerging high-risk trends in payment processing based on their recent work monitoring millions of merchants.