Spot Fraudulent Users With an Email Risk Check
With recent studies showing financial losses and reputation damage resulting from email-based fraud reaching staggering levels, robust methods for verifying user authenticity are critical. With an email age analysis, you can reduce churn and improve the customer experience by blocking users who register with fake or synthetic IDs before they cause harm to your business. Spot fraudulent users with an email risk check
This verification tool checks for several indicators to assess the risk level of a given email address. It examines a combination of 20+ fraud-related variables, including the email’s age, velocity of usage, leaked emails, spam abuse and domain validity. It also analyzes a given device (landlines and mobile) for indicators of GPS emulation, device rooting and proxy use to determine if a user is using tools to mask their identity and trick your online identification flow.
Spot Fraudulent Users with an Email Risk Check: Prevent Account Takeover
It can be difficult to tell whether an email is legitimate or not. Criminals will use tactics like threatening language, false claims of support or teasing offers to create fear and curiosity in users. They will also leverage current news stories, big events or specific times of year to increase their chances of triggering an emotional response from a victim.
This verification tool will identify if an email has been exposed in one of the thousands of data breaches. This will help you identify potential attackers who may have more information about the user, including actual passwords. You can’switch on’ this feature in your account portal by choosing the Email Search as a check to be included in your IDMatrix verification decisioning, in line with your business and compliance configuration.