Email Age & Activity

Some Emails Just Feel Off — First Seen Date Tells You Why

In the world of digital transactions, every customer leaves a trail. The question is: can you see it?

With AtData’s insight into email age, you gain the power to differentiate between legitimate customers and the ever-growing tide of fraud.

Imagine two customers on your website. One enters with an email that’s been in use for six years — verified, active, and consistent across reputable platforms. The other arrives with a fresh email — no history, no engagement, no context. The difference is glaring. But how do you know which one to trust?

AtData helps you answer that question in real-time by showing you not just the age of an email, but its journey. An email’s age isn’t just a date — it’s a trust indicator, revealing the behavior and reliability behind each address. When you understand the history, you understand the risk.

Milestone Moments That Build Digital Trust

What makes an email trustworthy? It’s a simple but profound question. Trust is built over time.

A trustworthy email is one that’s been verified repeatedly, engaged across multiple brands, and hasn’t been flagged by spam traps. A trustworthy email behaves like a person, consistent and steady.

• Created years ago, and shown activity over time
• Engaged with multiple legitimate brands
• No spam trap history or tumbling activity
• Behaves like a real person, not a bot or a script

Now contrast that to a two-day-old email that signs up for five accounts within minutes, and the difference is clear. That’s the kind of risk AtData helps you spot before it slips through your approval process.

Why Email Age Matters in Fraud Detection

Fraud isn’t just about fake names or stolen credit cards. It’s about exploiting new, unverified, and low-history email addresses to manipulate systems. Fraudsters can fake everything but time. They create throwaway emails to reset credentials, claim promo offers, or hide behind bot attacks.

That’s where AtData steps in. Email age is a core signal in our fraud prevention system, helping you identify high-risk addresses long before traditional filters even blink.

• When fraudsters create synthetic identities, AtData spots them by their fresh, unproven emails.
• When account takeovers happen, AtData’s signals detect the burner emails behind the attack.
• Promo abuse, bot scripts, and fraudulent account creation — they all leave traces, and AtData helps you uncover them.

How AtData Uses Email Age to Strengthen Fraud Detection

But why does email age matter so much? It’s more than just a number—it’s a behavioral signal. AtData uses email age to assess whether an identity has had time to build trust or if it’s too new to be genuine.

• Newer than 7 days? That email hasn’t built any meaningful history. Combine that with signs like rapid activity or an untrustworthy domain, and it’s likely a fraud attempt.
• Aged 6–12 months? Still worth watching. We use that age signal alongside engagement patterns to give context on how that email behaves.
• 3+ years old and verified? That’s a sign of long-term use, especially when it’s been active across known, trusted platforms.

AtData doesn’t just block or approve based on age—it weaves it into the larger picture. It’s another layer of confidence, helping you make more accurate fraud decisions.

Start Making Smarter Fraud Decisions, Instantly

So why trust AtData? With billions of signals processed each month and decades of email history, we bring you the intelligence to spot fraud, make real-time decisions, and reduce manual reviews. You can trust the emails that have stood the test of time, blocking the bad actors before they cost you. Our tools improve fraud detection without increasing friction for your genuine customers.

Don’t reinvent your fraud prevention stack. Just add smarter signals. With AtData, integrating email age into your fraud workflows is easy. Real-time API access, seamless scoring, and the confidence that you’re making better decisions.