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AlertPay selects TeleSign for Telephone Verification and PhoneID

Wednesday 26 October 2011 15:19 CET | News

Canadian online payment company AlertPay has selected TeleSign, a provider of internet fraud prevention and web-based user identification, access, and authentication services, to use the latter’s Telephone Verification and PhoneID products to combat fraud.

TeleSign PhoneID enables AlertPay to block non-fixed VoIP numbers and reduce fraud while alleviating the resource strain of manual reviews.

PhoneID 2.0 provides online businesses with the ability to detect suspicious telephone numbers, which allowing companies to better identify and stop internet fraud and spam. PhoneID offers information about a phone number including registration of location information and phone type. With this information companies are able to identify anonymous, location-independent telephone numbers and block or flag these users. In addition to phone type information, PhoneID returns phone number characteristics including city, state/province, postal/zip code and country for US and international phone numbers.

AlertPay accepts e-wallet and credit card payments and offers its services in 197 countries and in 23 different currencies. The company also provides foreign exchange services, localized banking, fraud prevention, email invoicing, mass and single remittances as well as business management tools.

TeleSign has executed more than 1 billion authentication and verification transactions in more than 200 countries and over 50 languages.


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Keywords: AlertPay, TeleSign, Telephone Verification, PhoneID, fraud
Categories: Fraud & Financial Crime
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Fraud & Financial Crime