API Studio | Custom Identity & Verification APIs | Prove
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Prove Identity®
Reputation
Ownership
Seamlessly verify consumer identities and deliver real-time risk scoring to reduce friction and control fraud.
Benefits:
- Boost pass rates by passively confirming consumers are in possession of the phone they rightfully own, all while maintaining privacy
- Streamline AML/KYC compliance at onboarding and with ongoing monitoring
- Detect and prevent sophisticated fraud threats, including synthetic identity fraud and true name fraud, using real-time behavioral signals
Identity Verify℠
Ownership
Confidently verify identities by validating consumer-provided PII and confirm phone number ownership using authoritative data, including device and phone number data.
Benefits:
- Helps to eliminate bad actors, prevent fraudulent accounts, and reduce user friction throughout the customer lifecycle
- Proprietary reason codes offer additional insight to evaluate risk, such as ownership tenure
Trust Score®
Reputation
Real-time measure of phone number reputation and behavioral signals that silently assesses risk to minimize friction and mitigate fraud.
Benefits:
- Silently assesses risk and identifies when to step-up authentication to mitigate SIM swap fraud, Authorized Push Payment scams, identity theft and other account takeover schemes
- Coverage includes users with limited/no credit history, unbanked persons, and young demographic
- Unique reason codes provide additional insight into score, such as identity tenure
Trust Score+
Reputation
Leverages Prove proprietary data, MNO/carrier data for real-time signals and Non-Consented signals to provide real-time identification of account takeover risk, device theft, and unauthorized SIM swap & ports.
Contact Enrichment
Ownership
Maintain accurate customer profiles and records by continuously verifying and appending existing customer records with additional verified phone numbers associated with the identities
Benefits:
- Ensure you reach the right user each time with real-time, accurate contact information
- Optimize the customer experience and reduce support costs by maintaining the most up-to-date contact information
- Gain a complete and up-to-date picture of your customer profiles, including:
- Full identity data verification
- Flag outdated phone numbers
- Additional trusted contact phone numbers
- Current carrier and line types, e.g. mobile, landline, VOIP, toll-free etc
Mobile Auth℠
Possession
Real-time, passive authentication (proof of possession check) of a mobile device by resolving the mobile phone number assigned to the SIM card and by extension, device
Benefits:
- Can replace OTP, passive authentication
- No human interaction required reduces abandonment and opportunity for error; no false positives
Instant Link℠
Possession
A second-factor of authentication (proof of possession check) service that allows a client to issue a clickable link embedded in an SMS.
Benefits:
- Utilizes both active and passive authentication, where possible, to create a more secure alternative to SMS OTP
- Additional insight into risk is available using our IP intelligence and customization of authentication URLs is supported
SMS OTP
Ownership
A second-factor of authentication (proof of possession check) service that allows a Client to issue a One-Time Passcode (OTP) via SMS
Benefits:
- Globally accepted authentication method and established consumer experience
- Reliant on SMS Network: 99.9% SMS handoff to Carriers
Voice OTP
Ownership
A second-factor authentication (proof of possession check) service that allows a Client to issue a One-Time Passcode (OTP) via a Voice call.
Benefits:
- Configurable voice prompts, able to authenticate all device types, languages include English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin, etc.
- Enable authentication for users without the ability to receive an SMS
Prove Caller Authentication
Possession
Deterministically authenticate that a call originates and is in session from your consumer’s mobile device while they are in an active session with your call center.
Benefits:
- Improves servicing and contactability with a persistent, trusted link between a consumer and their phone number
- Seamless, passive authentication that adds a powerful layer of security without compromising the user experience
Identity Manager
Ownership
Real-time notifications for phone number, device, and other identity attribute changes and disconnects via batch updates.
Benefits:
- Optimize consumer servicing with active monitoring and alerts to reach the right consumer each time
- Reduce fraud by proactively identifying changes in phone ownership to prevent unauthorized account access
Our solutions leverage Prove's PRO Model℠ of identity verification & authentication
Our Solutions leverage 3 unique checks that make identity fraud expensive and unscalable for fraudsters:
Possession
Phone numbers are bound to mobile phones with 128-bit encryption, allowing Prove to authenticate Possession.
- Mobile Auth℠
- Instant Link℠
- SMS Delivery
- Voice Delivery
Reputation
Phone numbers have Reputation, allowing Prove to assess risk in real time.
- Trust Score®
Ownership
99% of consumers have a personal phone number, allowing Prove to verify identity via Ownership.
- Identity Verify℠
"We were looking to solve two primary challenges: reducing fraud and improving the customer experience by reducing friction in the credit card application process. Prove allows us to validate phone ownership and possession for 90%+ of users while also allowing us to pre-fill meaningful pieces of the application for those users, reducing the number of steps they need to go through to sign up."
Brandt Smallwood
Head of Card at Bilt Rewards