Introduction
An introduction to the social & digital data enrichment part of our Deep Phone & Email Check tools
The power of data enrichment
Leveraging data enrichment has many applications when fighting fraud.
It gives you clear background information about any email address or phone number, and allows you to perform better, faster fraud investigation by replacing doubts with certainty about an individual, while ruling out synthetical identities.
Overview
For each phone or email analysis you perform, we will dig deep to extract as much social & digital data as possible.
We call social data the data related to the online profiles linked to an email or phone (online_profiles object in the API response).
The strength of our data enrichment solution is that there is no guessing: all the data is current, and gathered in real-time, with great accuracy.
One of our key strengths in performing data enrichment lookups is our overall response time, and we are proud to be able to return more than 280+ data points in less than 3.5 seconds.
Note
Response times can be configured to return data more quickly, or in greater detail. To choose your desired response time, check our Response time & timeout setting page.
How does social data enrichment work ?
For every service we check (such as facebook or twitter), you will get various data points.
At least 2 data points will be gathered for each service:
is_registeredstatus: this indicates if the provided email or phone has an account registered with the serviceerrorstatus: this indicates whether the data enrichment was successful for this particular service or if it timed out, more info here
For services where more information is available (such as pictures, names, location, etc.), you will also get an additional_information object, which will contain all the detail about the profile we found.
What data will you get? Is there a list?
For an up-to-date list of the data we gather and the format in which it is presented, please refer to our Social data list.
This list is kept tightly up-to-date.
Individual service timeout
Important
When an external source does not respond in time, the retrieval process is stopped, and the individual enriching process for this service will be put in
errormode.For manual checks, this is shown by the icon of the service displaying red, as shown below.
When using the API, this translate to the
errorproperty of the particular service being set totrue.These errors are not a cause for concern and do not affect the overall stability of Defastra whatsoever.
To limit these individual errors and achieve a higher success rate (resulting in a more detailed list of services and associated details), we recommend using the extensive timeout settings.
You can also re-run the deep check if crucial data is missed. This will usually result in a higher success rate, unless if the external source is experiencing an outage.
In any case, those errors are part of any data enrichment process, and Defastra works hard to reduce them as much as possible.
The current average error ratio is 5% when using a
normaltimeout setting. More info about timeouts and response time can be found here.
Manual lookup example
Here is an example of how the data is displayed when performing a Deep Email Check from the dashboard:
When you hover any of the icons in the online profiles section, the name of the service will be displayed.
As we can see on the example screenshot above, 2 icons are red, as explained here.
Some profiles will be public, in which case, a button View profile will lead you to their online profile page.
API lookup example
Here is the format of a JSON response from the API when performing an Deep Check:
Important
All the social data are nested in the
online_profilesobject.When handling the
additional_informationfrom the API response, take extra care to ensure the properties you are searching exist and are notnull.Refer to our data list data list for data types and a list of all the attributes.
{
"status": true,
"request_id": "82960F388560A218E29104A2A8C3F29A",
"deep_email_check": {
"risk_level": "extreme",
"risk_score": 88,
"email": "[email protected]",
"profiles_count": 85,
"creation_date": {
"datetime": "2008-07-01",
"timestamp": 1214870400
},
"deliverability": "invalid",
"signals": [
{
"result_type": "risk",
"detail": "The countries linked to this email (\"RU\" on askfm, \"SA\" on skype, \"TR\" on foursquare) don't match between themselves.",
"name": "EMAIL_POSITION_CONSISTENCY"
},
{
"result_type": "risk",
"detail": "This email address is undeliverable and has an 'invalid' status",
"name": "EMAIL_DELIVERABILITY"
},
{
"result_type": "risk",
"detail": "This email address is linked to 85 online profiles which indicates this email is shared",
"name": "EMAIL_ONLINE_VELOCITY"
},
{
"result_type": "risk",
"detail": "This email address is present in much more data breach than usual, indicating a shared email",
"name": "EMAIL_DATA_BREACH"
}
],
"online_profiles": {
"amazon": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"nike": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false,
"additional_information": {
"first_name": null,
"last_name": null,
"picture_base64": null,
"picture_last_modified": null,
"username": null
}
},
"instagram": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"google": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false,
"additional_information": {
"country": null,
"country_code": null,
"gender": null,
"google_maps_profile": null,
"in_app_notification": null,
"last_update": {
"datetime": null,
"timestamp": null
},
"name": null,
"picture_base64": null,
"profile_url": null
}
},
"foursquare": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false,
"additional_information": {
"bio": null,
"city": null,
"country": null,
"country_code": null,
"facebook_url": null,
"first_name": null,
"friends_count": null,
"gender": null,
"last_name": null,
"picture_base64": null,
"profile_url": null,
"twitter_url": null,
"username": null
}
},
"badoo": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"battlenet": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"microsoft": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"skype": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false,
"additional_information": {
"birthday": null,
"city": null,
"country": null,
"country_code": null,
"gender": null,
"name": null,
"picture_base64": null,
"skype_id": null
}
},
"atlassian": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"twitter": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false,
"additional_information": {
"multiple_accounts": null
}
},
"uber": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"asus": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"github": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"indeed": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"tumblr": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"vimeo": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"myspace": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"bitly": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"booking": {
"error": true
},
"snapchat": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false,
"additional_information": {
"has_bitmoji": null
}
},
"bukalapak": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"care2": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"change": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"kakaotalk": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"hubspot": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"vrbo": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"tiktok": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"patreon": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"ok": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false,
"additional_information": {
"location": null,
"name": null,
"age": null,
"registered_at": null
}
},
"linkedin": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false,
"additional_information": {
"bio": null,
"city": null,
"country": null,
"country_code": null,
"facebook_url": null,
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"gender": null,
"last_name": null,
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"profile_url": null,
"twitter_url": null,
"username": null
}
},
"yahoo": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"airbnb": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false,
"additional_information": {
"about": null,
"is_verified": false,
"location": null,
"name": null,
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"profile_url": null,
"registered_at": {
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"timestamp": null
},
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"school": null,
"trips": null,
"work": null
}
},
"hulu": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"etoro": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"gravatar": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false,
"additional_information": {
"picture_base64": null,
"picture_last_modified": null,
"username": null
}
},
"yandex": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"apple": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"spotify": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"academia": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"activision": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"adobe": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"archive": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"callofduty": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"dhgate": {
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},
"disneyplus": {
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},
"economictimes": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"espn": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"hp": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"lastfm": {
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"is_registered": false
},
"okcupid": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"pof": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"soundcloud": {
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"is_registered": false
},
"vk": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"stripe": {
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"is_registered": false
},
"flickr": {
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}
},
"facebook": {
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"is_registered": false
},
"ebay": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
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"imgur": {
"error": false,
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},
"discord": {
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},
"disqus": {
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"is_registered": false
},
"pinterest": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"quora": {
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},
"nextdoor": {
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"is_registered": false
},
"quizlet": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"rambler": {
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"realtor": {
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}
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"redfin": {
"error": false,
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"remind": {
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"shaadi": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"smule": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"tagged": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
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"talent": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"envato": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
},
"evernote": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
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"flipkart": {
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"freelancer": {
"error": false,
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},
"gaana": {
"error": false,
"is_registered": false
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"error": true
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"edx": {
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"flightaware": {
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"foodnetwork": {
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"jd": {
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"lastpass": {
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"mailru": {
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"myfitnesspal": {
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"breach_count": 2,
"first_breach_date": "2015-03-01",
"what_leaked": [
"Email addresses",
"IP addresses"
],
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{
"breach_name": "000webhost",
"breach_date": "2015-03-01"
},
{
"breach_name": "2844Breaches",
"breach_date": "2018-02-19"
}
]
},
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}
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