PhoneID Standard

Online businesses of all sizes are constantly under fire from well-organized fraudsters and hackers. In 2011 alone, online merchants lost $3.4B to online fraud. TeleSign’s PhoneID provides merchants access to real-time business intelligence to predict and prevent online fraud. The world’s largest online properties trust TeleSign's fraud detection and prevention solution PhoneID to secure their business.

Patented Technology

On May 17, 2011, TeleSign announced that the U.S. Patent Office awarded Patent No. 7,945,034  for TeleSign’s PhoneID, a technology that enables companies to identify risky transactions by analyzing and reporting a set of key attributes associated with a phone number.

Actionable Data

PhoneID identifies the user’s phone type, providing merchants with accurate data to assess high risk transactions or to simply determine who can receive an SMS. PhoneID enables businesses to:

  • Quickly identify high-risk transactions
  • Increase conversions of legitimate orders
  • Decrease time to revenue
  • Reduce undeliverable messages by identifying SMS enabled devices before sending an SMS (TeleSign has identified that approximately 15% of all SMS are sent to non-SMS enabled phones).

Verify Phone Number, Type, and Other Attributes

PhoneID identifies several attributes from a user’s phone number:

  • Phone type, such as: Mobile, Landline, Non-fixed VoIP, Invalid, Pre-Paid, Personal, Pager, Toll-Free and Restricted.
  • Geographic information, such as: City, County, State, Country, Latitude, Longitude and Time Zone.
  • Telecom carrier information: AT&T Wireless, Boost Mobile, O2, etc.

Phone Number Cleansing

  • Improves deliverability on average by 10%
  • Identifies invalid phone numbers
  • Correct formatting to make phone numbers dialable and traceable

 

Demos

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How it Works

PhoneID is provided through a simple to integrate REST API and can be used as a stand-alone product for fraud detection and protection or in conjunction with TeleSign Verify. Once an end user provides their phone number as part of the check out process or when filling out a form, TeleSign automatically returns the characteristics of the phone number without interruption to the user. Companies can then act on this information and assess the quality of the transaction or lead.

PhoneID includes phone number cleansing, which leverages TeleSign’s relationships with Telcos and internal heuristics to automatically correct improperly formatted phone numbers.

Industries

TeleSign has extensive expertise with customers with industry specific solutions, including compliance requirements such as HIPAA, FFIEC,CJIS, NIST, PCI-DSS, FACTA.

Gaming

Cloud Service

eCommerce

Payments

Social Networks

Lead Generation

Hosting & Registrars

Financial Services

Education

Enterprise

Public Sector

 

Fast Facts

  1. How can PhoneID Standard save money and prevent undeliverable messages?
    Not everyone is equipped with SMS capabilities and there is a large portion of the population who are more comfortable with voice calls. Additionally SMS is a less reliable delivery mechanism than voice. PhoneID recently showed that 17.8% of all SMS were being sent to landlines from a company using a competing solution. This resulted in an additional cost and unhappy customers who are still waiting for their authentication codes.
  2. Is PhoneID Standard a stand-alone product?
    PhoneID can be used by itself or in conjunction with other TeleSign phone verification products, such as TeleSign Verify.
  3. Does PhoneID Standard replace manual review?
    The manual review process depends on each client’s preference. PhoneID provides an additional data point for clients to assess the risk of each transaction based on what phone is provided. The client can decide to bypass manual review in low-risk phone numbers such as landlines and mobiles, and automatically request manual review for high-risk phone numbers such as non-fixed VoIP and pre-paid mobiles. TeleSign provides business intelligence for the client to make informed decisions without requiring the end customer to take an extra step.
  4. Does PhoneID Standard work only in the US?
    PhoneID provides information on phone numbers around the globe.
  5. Is PhoneID Standard easy to integrate?
    PhoneID and all TeleSign phone verification and user authentication products are provided through a REST API. The TeleSign Client Services team works with every client to ensure a smooth integration and to provide technical help during every step of the way..