Email Fraud Score helps your team better detect fraudsters and protect against payment fraud and other forms of identity fraud while delivering seamless experiences to your customers. Email address risk scores are built using multiple signals, including domain reputation, blacklist status, email activity and more.

When combined with identity verification and user validation, email address risk score can help prevent chargebacks, refunds, and other costly fraudulent activities associated with ecommerce fraud. Unlike traditional spam filters that are reactive tools, IPQS ecommerce fraud prevention can be used during the sign up or checkout process to prevent fraudulent email addresses and user data capture.

Domain Reputation

The email domain of an email address is a strong signal for the quality of an email. Fraudsters often use throwaway domains for their emails to bypass blacklists, so this is a great way to quickly identify fraudulent email addresses.

Blacklist Status

The number of times the email address has been flagged by spam filters is a powerful indicator of whether an email has been involved in fraudster activity. This can be especially helpful in identifying transactional and registration stage fraud, as these types of fraudsters are often nimble and will change their email addresses frequently.

Email Activity

The frequency and velocity of an email address’s usage on the web is another powerful signal for fraudster activity. Frequently changing or cycling through different email addresses can be an early warning signal for a fraudster, and can raise an email address’s risk score significantly.

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