widely_seen
Many other accounts checked the address inside a day
At least three other Spaw accounts looked the address up in the last 24 hours — an address hitting many signup forms at once.
- risk weight
- +20
- dataset
- lookup-velocity
- reads from
- widely_seen
- verdict reason
- none: a score-only signal
What it means
The count is kept as a keyed hash of the address with the account ids that saw it and when, for a day; the caller's own repeats never count, and nothing is held about who. Null means nobody could count: the guest demo, the sandbox, test addresses and invalid syntax.
It reads from widely_seen and comes with no verdict reason.
What to do
At signup, ask for a second factor or slow the flow: the address is being used by something automated rather than by one person.
Example response
{
"email": "[email protected]",
"deliverable": "deliverable",
"widely_seen": true,
"risk_signals": [
{
"signal": "widely_seen",
"weight": 20,
"dataset": "lookup-velocity"
}
]
}Abbreviated: a real answer carries all 46 fields, listed in the verify-email reference. The risk_signals entry shown is the one this signal adds; the weights of every entry in the list sum to risk_score.
Related
markdown version: /docs/signals/widely_seen.md