Telesign Fraud Scoring API

Phone number reputation and fraud risk scoring

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POST /score/{complete_phone_number} Score Phone Number for Fraud Risk #

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OpenAPI Specification

telesign-fraud-scoring-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Telesign PhoneID Fraud Scoring API
  description: The Telesign PhoneID API provides global phone number intelligence, enabling businesses to verify and enrich phone number data for fraud prevention and risk assessment. Submit any phone number to receive carrier information, location data, phone type, and subscriber intelligence.
  version: '2'
  contact:
    name: Telesign Developer Support
    url: https://developer.telesign.com/enterprise
  termsOfService: https://www.telesign.com/terms-conditions/
servers:
- url: https://rest-ww.telesign.com/v1
  description: Telesign REST API
security:
- BasicAuth: []
tags:
- name: Fraud Scoring
  description: Phone number reputation and fraud risk scoring
paths:
  /score/{complete_phone_number}:
    post:
      operationId: scorePhoneNumber
      summary: Score Phone Number for Fraud Risk
      description: Submit a phone number to receive a reputation score indicating the likelihood of fraudulent activity. Combines phone number intelligence, traffic patterns, and global consortium data.
      tags:
      - Fraud Scoring
      parameters:
      - name: complete_phone_number
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: The complete phone number including country code, no spaces or special characters.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - account_lifecycle_event
              properties:
                account_lifecycle_event:
                  type: string
                  description: Stage of the account lifecycle when this score is requested.
                  enum:
                  - create
                  - sign-in
                  - transact
                  - update
                  - delete
                originating_ip:
                  type: string
                  description: End user's IP address for additional fraud signals.
                device_id:
                  type: string
                  description: End user's device ID. Case sensitive, Unicode characters encoded as UTF-8.
                account_id:
                  type: string
                  description: Your internal identifier for the end user's account.
                email_address:
                  type: string
                  format: email
                  description: End user's email address for additional risk signals.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Score calculated successfully
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ScoreResponse'
        '400':
          description: Invalid request parameters
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized
        '402':
          description: Insufficient credits
        '429':
          description: Rate limit exceeded
        '500':
          description: Invalid transaction
components:
  schemas:
    RiskScore:
      type: object
      properties:
        level:
          type: string
          description: Risk level classification.
          enum:
          - low
          - medium
          - high
          - block
        score:
          type: integer
          description: Numeric risk score from 0 (lowest risk) to 1000 (highest risk).
          minimum: 0
          maximum: 1000
        recommendation:
          type: string
          description: Recommended action based on the risk score.
          enum:
          - allow
          - flag
          - block
    ScoreResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        reference_id:
          type: string
          description: Unique 32-digit hex identifier for this transaction.
        status:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/TransactionStatus'
        risk:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/RiskScore'
        phone_type:
          type: object
          properties:
            code:
              type: string
            description:
              type: string
    TransactionStatus:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
        description:
          type: string
        updated_on:
          type: string
          format: date-time
  securitySchemes:
    BasicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
      description: Basic authentication using Customer ID as username and API key as password.