Risk Signal: Email Verification

Email Verification enables you to assess the risk of email addresses provided by the end user. Email verification is a fundamental risk check that analyzes an email address to provide an overall risk. Email verification, adds email intelligence as a layer of defense to fraud prevention. It assesses risks by evaluating email address metadata points such as domain details, email details, and risk indicators.

Use Case

For those with onboarding and account login workflows, who wish to understand and assess the risks of a given email address.

Supported Credentials

The following values can be uploaded as Prepared Data. Alternatively, they can be extracted by an upstream capability in a workflow.

To use Prepared Data with email verification as a standalone capability use workflow key 10066.

Key	Type	Mandatory	Description
Email address	String	yes	Email Address of Applicant

Example Prepared Data Body

{
    "email": "martin***ng@gmail.com"
}

Response

Response data is available for transactions that include the risk signal. For information on transaction data see Viewing or Retrieving Workflow Transactions.

Example Response

"capabilities": {
        "emailVerification": [
            {
                "id": "e9f21fbb-4b89-4410-8f71-5040c2c303de",
                "credentials": [
                    {
                        "id": "09df1028-17bf-4a7e-a17c-c6c9c47a30e5",
                        "category": "DATA"
                    }
                ],
                "decision": {
                    "type": "PASSED",
                    "details": {
                        "label": "LOW_RISK"
                    }
                },
                "data": {
                    "emailVerificationStatus": "Verified",
                    "firstVerifiedAt": "2022-08-08T16:33:01.000Z",
                    "totalHits": "2",
                    "emailExists": true,
                    "domainExists": true,
                    "domainName": "jumio.com",
                    "domainCompany": "Jumio",
                    "domainRiskLevel": "VERY_LOW"
                    "domainCreationDate": "1995-08-13T04:00:00.000Z",
                    "advice": "LOWER_FRAUD_RISK",
                    "domainCountry": "USA",
                    "domainCategory": "Webmail",
                    "domainCorporate": false
                }
            }
        ]
    }

Decision Details Labels

Decision Type	Label	Description
PASSED	LOW_RISK
REJECTED	HIGH_RISK
WARNING	MEDIUM_RISK
NOT_EXECUTED	PERMISSION_DENIED
NOT_EXECUTED	BAD_REQUEST
NOT_EXECUTED	PRECONDITION_NOT_FULFILLED
NOT_EXECUTED	TECHNICAL_ERROR

Data

Parameter	Type	Description
firstVerificationDate	boolean	true/false True if the email address is valid.
status	boolean	true/false True if the phone number is valid.
totalHits	string
emailExists	boolean	true/false
domainExists	boolean	true/false
domainName	string	The email domain.
domainCompany	string	Owner of the domain.
domainRiskLevel	string	Possible values: LOW MEDIUM HIGH
domainCreationDate	string	The creation date of the domain. This field may be blank for some queries. Returned in UTC format: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ
advice	string	Possible values are: FRAUD_REVIEW UNCLEAR_RISK LOWER_FRAUD_RISK MODERATE_FRAUD_RISK DATA_REVIEW
domainCountry	string	The country that issued the domain. Can be any ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code, and XKX for Kosovo. Examples: USA, AUT, GER, FRA
domainCategory	string	value is webmail
domainCorporate	boolean	true/false A true value indicates that the domain has been identified as belonging to a known corporation.