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Risk & Compliance

Digital Footprint Check API

Score an applicant's digital presence from their mobile and email — account age signals, presence on payment and social platforms, and consistency across them — to separate thin-file genuine users from synthetic identities.

Response
Real-time
Inputs
1 required · 2 optional
Consent
Not required
Billing
Per successful call
POST /v1/digital-footprint-check
Sandbox · Production
  1. Your application sends

    • Mobile number*
    • Email address
    • Name
  2. emver API

    Validates the request, queries the source, normalises the answer and logs the call. Billed only on success.

  3. Verified with

    Authoritative source

  4. You receive

    • Footprint score
    • Platforms with presence
    • Consistency flags
    • Risk band
digital-footprint-check Full reference
Overview

What the Digital Footprint Check API does

Send a mobile number and email. The API returns a footprint score, the platforms where the identifiers are registered and consistency flags, without returning any content from those platforms.

Benefits

Why teams use the Digital Footprint Check API

How established is this person online? Signals from phone, email and app presence.

Thin-file inclusion

Approve genuine first-time borrowers a bureau cannot see.

Synthetic identity signal

Freshly created identifiers with no history stand out.

Use cases

Where it's called

Where the Digital Footprint Check API is typically called, and what it settles there.

New-to-credit underwriting

Alternate data alongside the bureau.

Application fraud screening

Catch bulk-created identities.

How it works

Four steps, one response envelope

Request and response details, environments and a ready-to-import collection are in the developer console.

  1. 01

    Authenticate

    Call with your organisation API key. Sandbox and production use the same contract.

  2. 02

    Send the inputs

    Mobile number as a JSON body. Optional fields sharpen the match.

  3. 03

    We verify at source

    emver queries the authoritative record, normalises the answer and logs the request.

  4. 04

    Act on the result

    A verification status plus the fields listed above, in the same response envelope as every other API.

Privacy and security built in

Consent recorded · Payloads not retained beyond your retention window · Every request traceable

FAQ

Digital Footprint Check API: frequently asked questions

What teams ask before adding the Digital Footprint Check API to their integration.

No. Only presence and consistency signals are returned; no posts, contacts or messages.

Related

APIs that run alongside it

Usually called with the Digital Footprint Check API, on the same key.

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