Email Address Fraud Prevention

Advanced Email Address Analytics for Fraud Prevention

Streamline fraud detection and verification of users and payments through your platform with powerful email address analytics, totaling to over 30 email reputation signals that prevent fraud and abusive behavior to calculate an email risk score. IPQS enhances your team's awareness of bots, fake accounts, and suspicious payment with both positive and negative signals for comprehensive email fraud protection.

Improve identity verification and fraud prevention with real-time email address assessment using the industry's most advanced email address intelligence. IPQS calculates an overall Fraud Score which can be used to quickly block or flag suspicious accounts and high risk payments. While many email addresses can look legitimate to the naked eye, these are some of the factors that IPQS machine learning algorithms use to detect fraudulent email addresses:

• Email Address Age / Longevity — Aged email addresses typically represent a higher quality user. Due to the large amount of email addresses compromised online, it is possible for fraudsters to easily access compromised email addresses online and reduce the effectiveness of this signal.
• Domain Reputation — Email address domain reputation is a powerful signal for quality, especially when a fraudster is using a disposable domain or any type of abusive mail service. Known fraudulent email domains can quickly elevate a score to 90 or higher.
• Email Address Activity — The velocity and frequency that an email address is used on the web can help indicate if the email address is engaging in legitimate behavior, such as account registrations, purchases, etc. These signals help indicate that a real user is actually using the email address, rather than a fraudster that is cycling through 30+ different email addresses for malicious purposes.
• Email Address Identity Verification — Append data such as first and last names, location, phone number, and similar identity data points that can help verify the user is legitimately associated with the email address. Reverse identity verification checks and live appends enhance any fraud detection solution to quickly verify an email address matches a user.
• Suspicious Patterns — Weird characters, unusual patterns, excessive numbers, swear words, and similar behavior can help identify bad emails that likely represent a high risk user or payment. An email risk score is the perfect defense against fraudulent transactions or registrations.
• Email Blacklists & Honeypot Network — Access the industry's best email address blacklist to block malicious emails associated with fraudulent behavior, such as chargebacks, bots, fake registrations, etc. Benefit from one of the largest honeypot networks of compromised accounts and high risk user data that can supplement existing fraud detection rules.
• Email Validation - Combine email address fraud prevention with world class email validation services. Advanced risk analysis paired with email verification identifies fake or inactive email accounts.

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IPQS Email Address Fraud Activity

Easily detect fraudulent email addresses and high risk behavior with real-time email validation and reputation analysis using advanced email address intelligence.

How Does Email Fraud Prevention Work?

IPQS email address intelligence incorporates each of the quality checks above to identify email address reputation issues for personal email addresses and business accounts alike. This verification process also includes a deep email blacklist check based on behavior across our threat network and data from other clients that have recently reported fraudulent behavior back into our ecosystem through Fraud Fusion™.

Deep machine learning models put the final touches on our fraud scores which are based from 0 to 100. Fraud Scores >= 90 indicate high risk behavior and confirm that abusive behavior has recently been reported. Accurate fake email detection can identify email address fraud in just a few hundred milliseconds. Perform on-demand fraud email address checks through our user dashboard or live API. Our advanced custom rule sets make it easy to adapt our scoring directly to your audience, for better detection of fraudulent emails.

Email Address Fraud Prevention Analysis

IPQS makes it easy to identify high risk behavior simply by analyzing an email address. Addresses with a short lifetime of activity or those without healthy email reputation behavior are most concerning from a fraud prevention point of view. Fraudulent emails recently reported in our blacklists will also have elevated risk scores if multiple partners have reported abusive behavior. IPQS email address intelligence is easy to deploy and will quickly stop fraudulent chargebacks and fake leads or sign ups with real-time email address fraud protection.

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Dark Data™ — Honeypot & Trap Network

Track database breaches and catch threats that no other email intelligence provider can match. IPQS obtains proprietary data directly from the dark web through our Dark Data™ program to limit risk for account takeover (ATO), business email compromise (BEC), and fake accounts. Stolen user data is captured from the internet's worst bad actors to ensure all IPQS clients are protected from emerging threats and new fraud patterns. Preventing fraud has never been easier simply by analyzing an email address.

Outperform similar providers with faster detection for compromised accounts and database leaks with enterprise-grade email address risk scoring. Improve detection for fraudulent emails by pairing email fraud prevention with other services like phone number risk scoring to assess transaction risk and account registration quality.

Accurate Email Risk Assessment

Analyze email risk with a whole new perspective. IPQS performs deep reputation checks for quick and reliable email risk assessment across any region. Avoid false-positives and additional friction that's common for similar email risk analysis vendors. Target suspicious behavior while preventing chargebacks, fake or duplicate accounts, account opening fraud, bonus abuse, phishing, and similar malicious behavior from bad actors. IPQS email risk scoring also validates emails, to ensure their inbox is active to receive new messages.

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