This is true but in this case he's not directly integrated (he's using Recurly). Better fraud tools is something we are actively working on.
I was thinking of using recurly and this has put me off somewhat.
The thing you need to remember is that you do have options. If you choose a gateway with good fraud tools, or a gateway that integrates with them, we upstream that information to you. Traditionally Recurly has left fraud up to the gateway because they are much better at dealing with it, but we are now seeing the need to offer some more professional fraud tools by default at the Recurly level.
Feel free to email me if you want to have a discussion about it: ben@recurly.com