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TeleSign introduces PhoneID 2.0 service

Thursday 20 October 2011 13:01 CET | News

TeleSign, a provider of internet fraud prevention and web-based user identification, access, and authentication services, has introduced the next generation of its PhoneID service which enables online businesses to automate fraud prevention using phone data.

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.

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: TeleSign, online fraud, PhoneID 2.0 service, identification
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