How to Prevent Cryptocurrency Account Takeover

Last Updated: February 06, 2023 by Tamas Kadar
Emails and email addresses can reveal a surprising amount information about your users. Let’s see what can be gleaned from that data, and how can use it as part of their business operations.
An email analysis tool extracts as much data as possible from an email or email address. It helps you learn more about the sender and their intention. But there are very different reasons for using these tools. Let’s break them down below.
The third category or email analysis tools help you learn more about how risky a user is based on their email address. This is done by answering question such as:
By feeding that information into a fraud prevention software, you can calculate risk when onboarding a new user or processing a transaction.
Examples:
The first kind of email analysis tools are related to email analytics. Put simply, they let you measure metrics such as:
These are productivity tools, often deployed by companies who want to learn more about their internal messaging statistics or to measure employee efficiency.
Examples:
Email forensic tools help analyze, aggregate and display information relating to the email address, its content, and how and when it was sent. Examples include the ability to:
This is particularly useful when searching through huge databases of emails with granular detail. If you are an investigator, journalist or an IT administrator who needs to parse email data and present it in a specific way, you’ll need a good forensic email analysis tool.
Examples:
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A key component of fraud prevention Is device fingerprinting, which gathers data about hardware and software used by your website visitors. It is a fantastic tool to get an idea of how visitors access your pages.
The only downside? Device fingerprinting has been around a long time. In fact, the technology used to track browser configuration today has been around for at least a decade. To its credit, it is still a basic, yet efficient fraud-reduction measure.
Unfortunately, the world of online fraud is fast-paced, innovative, and resourceful. This means fraudsters had plenty of time to prepare, test and implement ways to bypass device fingerprinting on their own terms.
For instance, one technique we’re seeing more and more these days involves full profile packages. Sellers on questionable marketplaces offer platform login details combined with portable browser cache and cookies.
In other words: fraudsters are getting smarter. Businesses are left straddling behind in this constant game of cat and mouse. Our suggestion? Building a portfolio of fraud prevention tools that create a stronger line of defense against attacks.
And one of the most powerful and innovative tools we’ve developed in recent years is email analysis.
Gathering customer analytics based on their email address is a fresh trend (known commonly as email lookup) that is proving to be highly effective. Opening an account online is virtually impossible without an email address. Email addresses provide data that is a lot more specific and unique than browsers or mass-produced smartphone.
Moreover, innovations in data enrichment can extract more than a name and domain. Using the right tools, an email address will tell more about a user than an IP or device can. Specifically, we can see:
Last but not least: we can tell if the email address is used with social media accounts. According to our own SEON Intelligence analytics for the lending industry, 76% of defaulting customers had no social media presence.
“According to our own SEON Intelligence insights, 76% of defaulting customers in the lending industry used email addresses with zero social media presence.”
This is an extremely high correlation, which fraud managers in every industry can now leverage to calculate their risk scores – and the precision increases with every other data point available.
Companies are still very much focused on limited methods for identifying their users. Fraudsters are therefore at an advantage, because they’re constantly on the lookout for loopholes and new innovative ways to defraud these merchants.
In short, fraud prevention must also evolve. And at the minute, an email address, which is synonymous with a global unique identifier on the internet is one of the strongest data points you can check to boost your fraud prevention results.
SEON Intelligence is specifically designed to offer a combination of features that analyze data and reduce fraud, including a powerful email analysis tool. It’s also a modular solution, which means you can add it to your existing fraud prevention method to get the final boost it needs
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There are various ways to analyse email data based on your desired result. For forensics you can extract the email content. For analytics, you can look at the engagement rate. For risk management, you can see if the email address points to a risky user.
Yes, you can extract information legally and even connect it to open-source databases for investigation that meets data protection standards.
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Tamás Kádár is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of SEON. His mission to create a fraud-free world began after he founded the CEE’s first crypto exchange in 2017 and found it under constant attack. The solution he built now reduces fraud for 5,000+ companies worldwide, including global leaders such as KLM, Avis, and Patreon. In his spare time, he’s devouring data visualizations and injuring himself while doing basic DIY around his London pad.
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