Fraud Solution Profile

Email address intelligence serves as a powerful first line of defence against fraud. Every email address is like a digital fingerprint, revealing significant amounts of information about the user and their intent. By screening a person’s email address when they create an online account, businesses can uncover red flags and warning signs that help determine if the person is who they say they are and if they might be about to commit fraud.

About ASSESS

ASSESS is Email Hippo’s unique anti-fraud solution. Like our other email verification solutions, it uses a simple, robust API to deliver real-time intelligence on any email address. However, what makes ASSESS different is its use of dozens of insight points from proprietary and trusted third-party sources to detect fraud-specific risks with a high level of accuracy and sophistication in real time.

How ASSESS Email Verification Fights Fraud

By integrating the ASSESS API within sign up processes, businesses can automatically check for numerous fraud signals in real time at the point of account creation just by submitting the email address, first name, last name and ip address captured in your forms. The top features for fraud checking include:

• Hippo Risk Score: Assesses the overall risk level with a comprehensive 0-10 score, helping you instantly identify and block fraudulent activity.
• Disposable Email Address Detection: Blocks temporary ‘burner’ emails often used for fake sign-ups and fraudulent activity, with 24/7 monitoring for new disposable domains.
• Gibberish Check: Uses advanced analysis to identify randomly generated, nonsensical email addresses commonly associated with bots and fraudulent activity.
• Domain Age Analysis: Determines how long a domain has been active, helping to identify newly created, potentially risky domains commonly used in fraud schemes.
• Dark Web Link Checks: Identifies domains connected to dark web activity to filter out high-risk email addresses from your system. 
• Tor Exit Node Check: Flags IP addresses associated with Tor networks, which are often used to enable anonymised or fraudulent activity.
• Data Centre Identification: Recognises IPs linked to hosting providers or proxy services that may indicate a user is attempting to hide their true location or identity.
• Blocklist Check: Flags IP addresses that are listed on known spam and fraud blocklists, stopping known bad actors from entering your system

About Email Hippo

Since its founding in 2000, Email Hippo has evolved from a specialist email checking tool into a comprehensive suite of data solutions. Today, we empower businesses to detect suspicious sign-ups and mitigate fraud with our API-driven tools—MORE, INSIGHT, and ASSESS—alongside our dedicated list-checking platform, CORE. Free trials are available across our entire product range.