Does Locale Sense 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.

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"}'

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

What your code sees, per request.

A sample of the real response shape for a visitor in the United States — every value attributable, nothing guessed. Point the same call at any of the 197 markets.

Network & fraud

Try it live in the docs

GET /v1/self 200 OK · sample