# Socure’s Address RiskScores

## Predict Risk Connected to Physical Address

Socure Address RiskScores assess the likelihood that a physical address is genuine and linked to the asserted identity based on hundreds of signals. As part of the RiskScores suite with Email RiskScore and Phone RiskScore, Address RiskScores help organizations detect fraud early, verify address ownership, and reduce friction across onboarding, account changes, and payments.

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## Overview

### Assess Address Risk With Predictive Intelligence

Socure Address RiskScores use advanced machine learning and consortium intelligence to evaluate address credibility, residency signals, and association strength with a consumer’s identity. This signal helps businesses stop fraud from fake, stolen, or invalid physical addresses and make smarter decisions without slowing down legitimate customers.

## Capabilities

### Predict Address Risk and Verify Residency

#### Address risk prediction
Predict risk connected to physical address to flag suspicious address input early.

#### Better fraud capture
Improve coverage and fraud capture compared to other address verification methods by assessing risk and correlation together.

#### Flexible deployment
Apply flexible deployment across onboarding, profile changes, marketplace verifications, and delivery risk scenarios.

## Use Cases

### Built for Every Phase of Customer Interaction

Socure’s Address RiskScores support address-related risk decisions from onboarding to lifecycle events spanning authentication, deliveries, marketplace verification, and account changes.

#### Onboarding
Identify risky or invalid addresses before additional data is collected to reduce fraud early in the customer journey.

#### Address Changes for Accounts
Assess risk and association strength prior to approving profile address updates.

#### Sender and Receiver Verification
Evaluate risk for address-dependent use cases such as marketplace shipping or delivery verification.

#### Restricted Services Validation
Ensure compliance and safety when services are geographically restricted or regulated.

## Technology Highlights

### Predictive Risk Signals From Address and Identity Patterns

## Key Benefits

### Better Risk Decisions Without Added Friction

Address RiskScores help teams assess risk early, improve verification accuracy, and reduce unnecessary step-ups and manual review costs.

#### Detect Risk Early
Flag suspicious or invalid addresses at the first point of capture.

#### Improve Accuracy
Measure ownership correlation and risk together for stronger confidence in identity profile decisions.

#### Reduce Friction
Minimize manual reviews and avoid unnecessary step-up verifications when risk is low.

#### Scale Risk Coverage
Apply predictive risk insights from onboarding through delivery and account change events.

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