An electronic commerce system managing sale and distribution of products
over the Internet or other type of network. In order to prevent attempts
by users to fraudulently obtain the products, system analyzes the
information submitted by the users in connection with stored and
associated information in an order to determine that likelihood that the
order is an attempt at fraud. Based upon the determination, system
accepts or declines the order. The system also saves the user-entered
information for use in determining whether to accept to decline future
orders.