Streamlining phone number fraud and account takeover prevention

Streamlining phone number fraud and account takeover prevention

Leveraging advanced machine learning built upon consortium performance feedback data and the industry's most extensive data sources, Socure's Phone RiskScores verifies 28% more phone numbers than the leading phone finder providers, and captures insight from 70+ reason codes that are specific to the risk level of the phone number provided.

Key questions 

Key questions

Countering identity fraud requires verifying phone numbers and assessing risk at touchpoints such as account opening, account maintenance, and online transactions. Socure Phone RiskScore moves beyond rules-based approaches, and leverages adaptive machine learning and continuous feedback data to verify phone number risk and ownership, while ensuring a seamless user experience for legitimate customers.

Enable trust throughout the account lifecycle

progressive onboarding

Progressive onboarding

Enables an onboarding flow with incremental step-up verification, based on the consumer riskiness

Peer to peer actions

Peer to peer actions

Measures the risk of a receiving account's credentials to avoid authorized push payment fraud

OTPs

One-time passcode

Maintains trust and enables fraud prevention when sending one-time passcodes via phone

Non monetary profile changes

Non-monetary profile changes

Passively validates phone risk prior to implementing profile changes

Marketplace account creation

Marketplace account creation

Maintains integrity of gig and sharing economy ecosystems

High value actions

High value actions

Validates a consumer’s phone number prior to commencing a high-value transaction

Phone RiskScore technology highlights

Passive yet highly predictive

Passive yet highly predictive

  • Harness comprehensive data coverage from telco signals (number tenure, line details, activity patterns), credit headers, and Socure's proprietary consortium data
  • Evaluate the strength of connection between a phone number and the associated identity with advanced correlation modeling
  • Utilize extensive phone intelligence signals including primary/secondary designations, first/last seen dates, usage metrics, disconnect events, SIM swaps, line types, carrier classifications, and proprietary risk alerts

Flexible deployment

Flexible deployment

  • Mix-and-match the Socure ID+ suite with Sigma Identity Fraud, Sigma Synthetic Fraud, Digital Intelligence, as well as Email, Phone, and Address RiskScores
  • Gain identity decisions within a holistic model
  • Verify a 360-degree view of your users’ identities

Continuous improvement

Continuous improvement

  • Trained on Socure’s consortium feedback data gathered from our vast customer base, the Phone Risk model uses both positive and negative risk attributes
  • Analyze a comprehensive range of phone-specific features, including phone number age, type, carrier, service details, frequency of use, partial name and nickname matching, and alternative phone numbers linked to an identity.
  • Predict both the risk of identity fraud associated with a phone number, and provides insights into the phone number’s correlation to the complex, historic, holistic identity of the individual behind it

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