E-COMMERCE PROMOTION & ACCOUNT ABUSE
Use Signup Risk API to evaluate registrations before granting first-order discounts, referral rewards, loyalty benefits, promotional credits, or other account-linked value. Get an explainable allow, review, or block recommendation from one server-side API.
200 requests/month · No credit card required
THE PROBLEM
E-commerce abuse does not always begin with a fraudulent payment. New accounts can be used to repeatedly claim first-order discounts, referral rewards, loyalty benefits, promotional credits, or other incentives before a transaction is ever evaluated by your payment-fraud tools.
Repeated or low-quality registrations can be used to claim first-purchase discounts, coupons, promotional credits, or other account-specific offers multiple times.
Temporary and disposable inboxes can make it inexpensive to create short-lived customer accounts for repeated promotional use.
Datacenter, VPN, proxy, or Tor infrastructure may justify additional friction when combined with other registration evidence.
HOW IT HELPS
Add Signup Risk API to account creation or the point where an account first becomes eligible for discounts, referrals, loyalty rewards, or other valuable benefits.
Send the email address and optionally include the customer’s name and signup IP for additional context.
Signup Risk API evaluates disposable-email usage, domain infrastructure, provider type, role addresses, typo domains, synthetic identity patterns, name alignment, and optional IP reputation.
Use the allow, review, or block recommendation to grant normal benefits, require additional verification, reduce promotional eligibility, or stop very-high-risk registrations according to your own policy.
RISK CHECKS
Detect confirmed, likely, and suspicious disposable-email usage that can make short-lived account creation inexpensive.
When a name is supplied, evaluate how well it aligns with the email address and whether the supplied identity appears plausible.
When IP context is available, evaluate network characteristics such as datacenter, VPN, proxy, or Tor usage as one part of the broader registration decision. Raw signup IPs are not returned in the API response.
Identify placeholder-style email patterns and other synthetic registration characteristics that may justify additional scrutiny when combined with other evidence.
Evaluate domain existence and mail-related DNS infrastructure (such as MX, SPF, DMARC, and reserved or special-use domains) while distinguishing authoritative findings from temporary lookup failures.
Detect known provider-domain typos and guarded near-match domains that may represent mistyped or questionable registration addresses.
DECISIONING
Grant normal account and promotional eligibility when the available evidence contains few meaningful risk factors.
Introduce selective friction such as email confirmation, reduced promotional eligibility, additional verification, or manual review when the evidence is uncertain.
Stop very-high-risk registrations before granting account-linked discounts, rewards, credits, or other valuable benefits.
WORKFLOW
Customer creates an account or becomes eligible for an account-linked promotion
Your backend sends email, optional name, and optional signup IP
Signup Risk API returns the decision, checks, explanation, and metadata
Your application applies its account or promotional-access policy
Use the recommendation directly for a simple workflow, or inspect the check-level evidence and combine it with your existing promotion rules, payment-fraud system, or internal review process.
OUTCOMES
The goal is not to treat every unusual registration as abuse. It is to avoid granting discounts, referral rewards, loyalty benefits, promotional credits, or other valuable account privileges blindly when the signup evidence justifies additional friction. A promotion may be free to the customer, but it still has a cost to the business. Discounts, referral payouts, loyalty rewards, support time, and promotional credits all have real value. Signup Risk API helps you make the account-access decision before that value is granted.
Evaluate registrations before first-order discounts, promotional credits, referral rewards, or loyalty benefits are granted.
Keep lower-risk customers moving while reserving additional verification, reduced eligibility, or review for registrations with stronger risk factors.
Reduce low-quality registrations entering customer, promotion, referral, and loyalty reporting so those metrics better reflect meaningful accounts.
Signup Risk API recommends allow, review, or block; your application decides how those outcomes affect discounts, rewards, account access, or other benefits.
Signup Risk API evaluates the registration layer while your payment-fraud tooling continues evaluating the transaction layer.
PROTECT ACCOUNT VALUE
Add Signup Risk API to account creation or promotional eligibility and start making explainable allow, review, or block decisions before discounts, referral rewards, loyalty benefits, or promotional credits are issued.
200 requests/month · No credit card required
