Does LocaleSense replace OFAC sanctions screening?

No, and it is important to be clear: this is a coarse country-level overlay derived from public OFAC and FATF sources. It flags sanctioned and high-risk jurisdictions to route transactions to review — it does not screen individuals or entities against the SDN list, which you must still do per party.

What counts as a high-risk or sanctioned country here?

Comprehensive-embargo jurisdictions come from OFAC; additional high-risk markets come from the FATF grey and black lists. A sanctioned IP country raises the composite risk score and surfaces as its own named signal.

How should I use the country risk flag in practice?

As a first-pass filter that routes elevated-risk transactions to manual review or step-up checks, layered on top of — never instead of — your per-party screening and your own compliance policy.

Sanctions & risk screening

A first-pass country signal for sanctioned and high-risk jurisdictions, derived from public OFAC and FATF sources, that layers on top of — never replaces — your per-party SDN screening. Use it to route elevated-risk transactions to review.

Why it works_

A first-pass country signal

OFAC & FATF sourced

Comprehensive-embargo and high-risk flags from public government sources.

Feeds the risk score

A sanctioned IP country raises the composite score and its own signal.

Never a substitute

This is a coarse overlay; you still screen parties against the SDN list.

The data behind it

One call, these response blocks.

This page maps to these blocks of the same response every other page reads:

Network & fraud

sanctions-screening-support.sh

curl -X POST "https://api.localesense.com/v1/fraud/check" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ls_live_..." \
  -d '{"ip":"152.206.0.1","bin":"450099"}'

In practice

What your code sees, per request.

The sample on the right is the shape of the real response for a visitor in Karachi — every value attributable, nothing guessed. Point the same call at any of the 197 markets.

Try it live in the docs

GET /v1/self 200 OK · sample