low_confidence
A comparison was withheld because the location was not the person’s
The IP is a VPN exit, a relay or a datacenter egress, so its country belongs to the operator and comparing it would produce a difference that means nothing.
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- flag
- credits
- Free. The consistency analysis is arithmetic over answers already paid for and never costs a credit of its own.
What it means
Withholding is deliberate: answering `differ` here would manufacture evidence against everyone who uses a VPN.
The distance comparison is withheld on the same principle whenever the IP location is not graded high confidence.
What to do
Read `is_anonymous`, `is_relay` and `is_datacenter` on the IP block if you want to act on the network itself.
Example response
{
"comparison": "ip_address_country",
"left": {
"signal": "ip",
"field": "country",
"value": "NL"
},
"right": {
"signal": "address",
"field": "country",
"value": "US"
},
"result": "not_compared",
"withheld": "low_confidence",
"flag": null
}Abbreviated: a real answer carries all 33 fields, listed in the validate-phone reference.
Related
- phone_country_differs_from_address_country · the phone number and the address name different countries
- ip_country_differs_from_address_country · the IP address and the postal address name different countries
- ip_country_differs_from_phone_country · the IP address and the phone number name different countries
- disposable_email_from_datacenter_ip · a disposable address arriving from a datacenter
- disposable_email_from_anonymous_network · a disposable address arriving over an anonymous network
- mail_drop_address_with_free_email_provider · a mail-drop address with a free email provider
- disposable_phone_with_disposable_email · a disposable number with a disposable address
- entity_country_differs_from_address_country · the company is registered in one country and the address is in another
- entity_name_differs_from_address_organization · the registered name and the organisation on the address are not the same name
- missing_value · a comparison was withheld because a value was missing
- All verdict reasons
- Phone fields and the risk score
- API reference
markdown version: /docs/reasons/low_confidence.md