Methods and Systems for Authenticating a Reported Geolocation of a Mobile Device

A method comprising:

• receiving, by a geolocation authentication system and by way of a user interface presented by the geolocation authentication system, user input from a client of a geolocation authentication service provided by the geolocation authentication system, the user input representative of customized authentication settings that
• designate a first location corroboration factor and a second location corroboration factor from a plurality of location corroboration factors that correspond to independent ways of determining geolocations of mobile devices based on information provided by the mobile devices, and
• associate a first weight value and a second weight value, respectively, to the first and second location corroboration factors;
• receiving, by the geolocation authentication system from a mobile device located at a true geolocation, a reported geolocation of the mobile device;
• accessing from the mobile device, by the geolocation authentication system in response to the receiving of the reported geolocation,
• a first datapoint that characterizes, based on the first location corroboration factor, a correlation between the reported geolocation of the mobile device and the true geolocation of the mobile device, and
• a second datapoint that further characterizes, based on the second location corroboration factor, the correlation between the reported geolocation of the mobile device and the true geolocation of the mobile device;
• and
• determining, by the geolocation authentication system based on the first and second datapoints and in accordance with the first and second weight values, a custom confidence metric representative of a likelihood that the reported geolocation is the true geolocation.

A system comprising:

• at least one physical computing device that
• receives user input representative of customized authentication settings that designate a location corroboration factor from a plurality of location corroboration factors that correspond to independent ways of determining geolocations of mobile devices;
• receives, from a mobile device located at a true geolocation, a reported geolocation of the mobile device;
• accesses, in response to the receipt of the reported geolocation, a datapoint that characterizes, based on the location corroboration factor designated by the customized authentication settings, a correlation between the reported geolocation of the mobile device and the true geolocation of the mobile device;
• and
• determines, based on the datapoint, a custom confidence metric representative of a likelihood that the reported geolocation is the true geolocation.