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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2023
Paypal, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Marzieh Bitaab, Chandler, AZ (US);
Adam Oest, Fountain Hills, AZ (US);
Muhammad Saad, Phoenix, AZ (US);
PAYPAL, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
There are provided systems and methods for an automated domain crawler and checkout simulator for proactive and real-time scam website detection. A service provider, such as an online transaction processor, may provide a domain crawler and checkout simulator that may be used to detect scam websites when registered and/or configured to utilize intermediary webpages of other domains to perpetrate fraud or scams on customers. The domain parser may detect new domain registrations and may parse through their corresponding websites to identify those that include checkout options or other processing flows that proceed through steps and use a service or feature of a service provider, including account usage for electronic transaction processing. The checkout simulator may then simulate a user's experience through the checkout to determine if domain redirections occur. If so, those redirections may be checked to identify usage of a merchant account having been flagged for scams.