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 Score Fraud Scoring API
  description: The Telesign Score API delivers reputation scoring for phone numbers based on phone number intelligence, traffic patterns, machine learning, and a global data consortium. Use it to assess fraud risk during account creation, sign-in, and financial transactions.
  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:
    TransactionStatus:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
        description:
          type: string
        updated_on:
          type: string
          format: date-time
    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
    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
  securitySchemes:
    BasicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
      description: Basic authentication using Customer ID as username and API key as password.