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Email Risk

Validate customer email addresses, reduce risk, and review fraud activity to help ensure customer authenticity
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Product Overview

Email Risk helps your business to prevent fraud and speed up transaction approvals, ensuring a positive, frictionless experience for your customers.

It checks email existence, age, and domain, flags fraud links, and assigns a trust score based on 40 million addresses¹. This score helps spot and evaluate risk, working solo or with our other identity products, to boost risk management and confidence. 

¹Email risk 'Helping Identify Bad Actors' infographic, Equifax, 2023

How It’s Used

Quick Detection
Checks any email against a 40 million+ address database for existence, age, domain, and fraud.
Assess Risk Level

Evaluates and assesses the risk level, it checks a blocklist of known or highly suspicious email and IPs.

Real-Time Trust Scores
Provides you with a trust score which represents the degree of certainty we believe the email is associated with your customer. The system records any new fraud events and adjusts the trust score in subsequent interactions.

Key Stats

86%
Of professionals still favour this form of communication¹
51%
Of users have had the same email address for over 10 years²
3.4bn
Fake emails are sent daily³
¹Statista.com (2021)
²DMA Insight: Consumer Email Tracking Study (2015) - UK respondents
³Email Fraud Landscape Spring 2019

How Email Risk Supports ID Verification

Conduct confidence in business
Be confident with who you're doing business through the customer journey.
Access to world-class data 
Gain access to the world's largest categorised email address and domain listings.
Prior fraud history
Identify which industry has had prior fraud activity, to assess your risk.
Combine with Email Insight Add on
Email Insights compiles fraud and risk scores, ownership and linked accounts.
Competitive and usage-based prices
Customise it your way and pay for only what you need.

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