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The right signals for better fraud decisions.
Connect your fraud challenges with the data and verification capabilities that can help. IFD helps you evaluate coverage, integration requirements, pricing, and fit—with no advisory fee for buyers.
IP Intelligence & Proxy Detection
Relevant uses
Signup screening, suspicious login detection, lead quality assessment, and payment-risk evaluation.
IP reputation data, geolocation, and detection of VPNs, Tor exit nodes, hosting networks, and residential or mobile proxies provide context about where a request originates. The presence of a proxy or VPN is a signal to consider alongside other evidence—not a standalone fraud indicator.
Evaluation considerations
Coverage varies by provider. Residential proxy detection in particular differs significantly across vendors. Evaluate false-positive rates and update frequency alongside detection capability.
Email Validation & Risk Intelligence
Relevant uses
Registration screening, lead quality assessment, and reducing bounce rates on outbound messaging.
Address validation confirms whether an email address is correctly formatted and whether the domain accepts mail. Deliverability indicators assess whether a specific mailbox is likely to receive messages. Disposable-email detection identifies addresses from services designed for temporary use. Domain reputation and email-risk signals provide additional context. A working mailbox is not the same as a trustworthy user.
Evaluation considerations
First-seen dates reflect when a provider first observed an address—not when the mailbox was created. Evaluate what each provider's signals actually measure before drawing conclusions about account age or legitimacy.
Phone Validation & Risk Intelligence
Relevant uses
Registration screening, lead quality assessment, and evaluating numbers before sending verification messages.
Phone validation can assess formatting, number validity and—in supported cases—current activity. Available checks vary by provider, country and number type. Carrier and line-type information identifies whether a number is mobile, landline, or VoIP. VoIP and virtual-number classification provides context about number type; it does not establish identity or legitimacy. Phone-risk signals provide additional context about number history and behavior.
Evaluation considerations
VoIP classification is not a fraud signal on its own—many legitimate users have VoIP numbers. Evaluate line-type data as one input among several.
Device Risk Intelligence & Fingerprinting
Relevant uses
Screening new registrations, investigating automated submissions, assessing suspicious logins, evaluating promotional and account abuse, and adding context to transaction decisions.
A device does not need a known history to present risk. Device intelligence evaluates the browser or app environment for signs of manipulation, automation, and suspicious configurations. Supported capabilities may include emulator or virtual-environment indicators, location spoofing, and inconsistent device attributes—even when a returning-device match is unavailable.
Device recognition adds context by linking activity across sessions and accounts. It complements assessment of the current environment.
Evaluation considerations
Signal availability varies by provider and integration. Virtual machines, emulators, and privacy tools also have legitimate uses; assess combinations of evidence and observed outcomes.
Biometric & ID Verification
Relevant uses
High-value onboarding, regulated account opening, and scenarios where identity assurance requirements are elevated.
Identity-document checks assess signs of authenticity and consistency in submitted documents. Coverage and accuracy depend on the provider, document type and checks performed. Selfie-to-ID comparison assesses whether the person presenting the document matches the photo it contains. Liveness detection and presentation-attack detection evaluate whether a real person is present, where supported by a provider. These are provider capabilities that IFD helps buyers evaluate—availability, accuracy, and deepfake-detection claims vary significantly across vendors.
Evaluation considerations
Liveness and deepfake-detection capabilities differ substantially across providers. Evaluate specific test results and understand what attack types each provider's detection is designed to address.
Relevant abuse patterns
Identity & Application Risk Signals
Relevant uses
Application screening, lead quality assessment, and identifying patterns across submission activity.
Identity consistency signals evaluate whether the details submitted in an application—name, address, date of birth, contact information—are internally consistent and consistent with other available data. Repeated identifiers, mismatches between submitted fields, and submission velocity are observable patterns associated with application fraud. These signals are most useful when evaluated alongside other evidence rather than in isolation.
Evaluation considerations
Identity consistency signals are most useful when evaluated alongside other evidence. Mismatches and velocity patterns warrant investigation; they do not independently confirm fraud. See the Application Risk Data page for details on IFD's separate dataset offering focused on application risk signals.
Relevant abuse patterns
Transaction Risk Scoring
Relevant uses
Payment authorization decisions, high-value transaction review, and chargeback reduction.
Transaction risk scoring combines transaction context with relevant identity, IP, email, phone, and device signals to support risk decisions at the point of payment or account action. The signals available in any given integration depend on what data is collected and which providers are connected—not every integration automatically includes all signal types.
Evaluation considerations
Evaluate which signals a provider's scoring model actually incorporates and how the model is updated. Understand the trade-off between false-positive rates and fraud catch rates for your transaction mix.
Relevant abuse patterns
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