Understanding a user's physical location is vital for applications such as streaming services, dating sites, local marketplaces, and online gambling, as they enforce licensing, connect nearby users, verify listings, and ensure jurisdictional compliance. Despite this, users can easily bypass location restrictions using VPNs, which act as intermediaries that mask their true IP address, allowing them to appear from different locations and exploit location-based features. VPNs, while offering legitimate uses like enhancing information security, can also facilitate fraud by enabling users to spoof their location, circumvent security measures, and abuse regional pricing. Fingerprint, a device intelligence platform, provides solutions to detect VPN usage by identifying discrepancies between the user’s browser timezone and IP address, checking against known VPN server databases, and comparing operating systems. By integrating Fingerprint into websites, businesses can prevent location spoofing and protect against fraudulent activities by validating user data and applying regional discounts only when appropriate. Additionally, Fingerprint offers advanced features like Sealed Client Results to enhance security and reduce latency, though these are currently available only to Enterprise plan users.