Detect disposable emails to reduce spam and fraud
Detecting disposable email addresses (DEA) is important for businesses because these addresses are often used for fraudulent activities, such as free trial abuse or account takeover. This can negatively impact a company’s open and click-through rates, and customer churn. To prevent these issues, businesses should implement DEA detection strategies that can identify risky email addresses in real-time and block registrations from disposable email domains.
Detect disposable emails to reduce spam and fraud email services provide users with a temporary email address that automatically expires after a specific amount of use. These addresses are often accessed by fraudsters and scammers, who then reuse the same address for multiple transactions or promotions. This can lead to a large number of unwanted emails and spam in the subscriber’s primary email inbox.
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Many fraud prevention tools and email validation APIs have lists of known disposable email providers that they can cross-reference against email addresses to determine whether or not the address is disposable. Alternatively, businesses can manually check against these lists, but this is a labor-intensive process and can lead to inaccurate results.
To quickly check whether or not an email is disposable, businesses should use a real-time email verification API or lookup tool. The tool will run the domain against a list of disposable email service providers and return either “True” or “False” to indicate whether an email address is valid. In addition to checking for disposable emails, business should also consider if the email address has been leaked from another website or compromised during a data breach.…