MARKETPLACE SELLER RISK

Review risky sellers before they enter your marketplace

Use Signup Risk Score API to detect burner emails, suspicious seller details, risky infrastructure, and low-quality onboarding patterns before sellers create listings or contact buyers.

THE PROBLEM

Bad sellers create marketplace risk early

Seller onboarding is one of the most important checkpoints in a marketplace. Risky sellers can create fake listings, abuse promotions, contact buyers, evade bans, or damage marketplace trust before your team has enough context to react.

Fake seller accounts

Disposable emails and low-quality account details make it easier for bad actors to create repeat seller profiles.

Marketplace trust risk

Risky sellers can damage buyer confidence before moderation or support teams detect the issue.

Operational review burden

Without a consistent risk score, teams must manually inspect seller applications with limited context.

HOW IT HELPS

Score seller signups before access is granted

Send seller signup context during onboarding and receive a clear recommendation your marketplace can use immediately.

Send seller signup context

Pass the seller email, optional name, optional IP address, and marketplace industry context during onboarding.

Run risk checks

The API evaluates disposable email evidence, domain infrastructure, provider classification, identity details, name match, and optional IP reputation.

Route the seller

Allow low-risk sellers, review uncertain sellers, or block very high-risk attempts before listings, messaging, or payouts are enabled.

RISK CHECKS

Checks that matter for marketplace seller risk

Disposable email detection

Identify confirmed or likely burner domains often used for fake seller accounts and ban evasion.

Name match

Compare supplied seller name details with the email local part and flag mismatches or low-quality account details.

IP reputation

Classify contextual infrastructure risk such as datacenter, VPN, proxy, and Tor usage without returning raw IPs.

Provider classification

Understand whether the seller email uses a free provider, business domain, disposable provider, or unknown provider.

Domain infrastructure

Check DNS, MX, SPF, and DMARC posture to understand whether a seller domain appears established or risky.

Historical risk cache

Reuse recent results to reduce repeated analysis and recognize recurring signup patterns across seller onboarding.

DECISIONING

Turn seller onboarding into allow, review, or block decisions

Allow

Let low-risk sellers continue onboarding when the checks show no major concerns.

Review

Send uncertain sellers to manual review, document checks, payout holds, or reduced-permission onboarding.

Block

Stop very high-risk seller attempts before listings, buyer contact, or marketplace access are enabled.

WORKFLOW

Where signup scoring fits in seller onboarding

Step 1

Seller submits onboarding form

Step 2

Your app sends email, optional name, optional IP, and marketplace context

Step 3

Signup Risk Score API returns email details, decision, checks, explanation, and metadata

Step 4

Your app allows, reviews, or blocks the seller signup

Use the recommendation directly for a simple onboarding gate, or inspect the check breakdown to route sellers into custom review workflows.

OUTCOMES

Protect marketplace trust before bad sellers gain access

Reduce fake seller accounts

Catch suspicious seller signups before they create listings or interact with buyers.

Protect buyer trust

Add a risk checkpoint before high-impact marketplace actions are enabled.

Prioritize review queues

Use risk details to focus manual review on the seller applications that need attention most.

Support safer growth

Scale seller onboarding without treating every new seller like a manual investigation.

START SCORING SELLER SIGNUPS

Review risky sellers before they enter your marketplace

Use Signup Risk Score API to evaluate seller signups in real time and route each attempt with an allow, review, or block recommendation.