US Patent 11869008 Minimizing risks posed to online services

A system receives a request for payment of a transaction between a vendor and a consumer, and sends a first request to a database associated with the online service for historical transactions and personal attributes of the vendor concurrently with sending a second request to a number of third-party services for credit information and personal attributes of the consumer. The system receives information responsive to the first and second requests from the database and the third-party services, respectively, and obtains a risk score for the transaction based on an application of one or more risk assessment rules to the received information by a machine learning model trained with at least the historical transactions and the personal attributes of the vendor. In some aspects, the system determines whether to advance funds to the vendor, prior to requesting payment from a consumer account, based at least in part on the risk score.