---
title: "Fraud Avoidance"
slug: "fraud-avoidance"
updated: 2025-10-21T17:21:13Z
published: 2025-10-21T17:21:13Z
canonical: "help.yahooinc.com/fraud-avoidance"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Fraud Avoidance

*This article describes resources that enable you to provide line-level fraud protection.*

## Overview

The proprietary fraud avoidance solution for Yahoo is TalonPro. TalonPro is always enabled to protect campaigns from robotic, non-human traffic. The DSP additionally supports optional 3rd Party fraud avoidance targeting for lines serving display and video ads to ensure that ads are properly represented and delivered to real people, rather than to non-human audiences.

## Endpoint

Use the following endpoint to read or specify line-level fraud avoidance settings.

```plaintext
/traffic/lines/{id}/targeting
```

- A `GET` request enables you to view line-level fraud avoidance for the specified line.
- A `POST` request enables you to add line-level fraud avoidance for the specified line.

## Resources

The `targeting` resource is the standard Yahoo DSP resource for targeting consumers based on their profiles, behaviors, and ad content.

The `targeting` resource is defined by the following fraud avoidance type-specific fields:

| Parameter | Parameter Type | Definition | Data Type | Required |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | path | Specifies the line ID. | `integer` | Y |
| `bots` | body | Specifies the bot fraud prevention partner. - `DOUBLE_VERIFY` - `IAS` | `array` | Y |
| `types` | body | Specifies an array of [targeting types](/dsp-api/docs/about-targeting) to update, enable or disable. `BOT` targeting type must be specified to apply the changes. | `array` | Y |

> [!NOTE]
> Note
> 
> For a complete list of targeting resource fields, refer to [Targeting Object](/dsp-api/docs/about-targeting).

## Add/Update Fraud Avoidance

Add or update fraud avoidance for the specified line.

```plaintext
POST /traffic/lines/{id}/targeting/
```

### Parameters

The line ID is specified in the path of the URL. All other parameters are specified in the body of the `application/json` payload.

#### Sample Request URL

```plaintext
POST https://dspapi.admanagerplus.yahoo.com/traffic/lines/365277/targeting/
```

#### Example Request Body

```plaintext
{
  "bots": [
    "IAS"
  ],
  "types": [
    {
      "name": "BOT",
      "isTargeted": true
    }
  ]
}
```

#### Sample Response

```plaintext
{
  "response": {
    "types": [
      {
        "name": "BOT",
        "isTargeted": true
      }
  ],
  "bots": [
      "IAS"
   ],
   "errors": null,
   "timeStamp": "2018-01-12T01:57:40Z"
  }
}
```

### Additional Resources

[About Targeting](/dsp-api/docs/about-targeting)