Email Certification System for Fraud Prevention
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems are inadequate in preventing ransomware attacks, email fraud, and message fraud, leading to significant financial losses and compromised security for individuals and organizations.
Innovation Solution
A computerized email and message certification system that verifies the authenticity of senders and recipients by transforming email addresses into identifiers for data storage and communication, ensuring the validity of emails and messages through confirmation processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If email addresses are used directly for communication and data storage, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability deteriorates due to email fraud and spoofing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary certification system that transforms email addresses into certified identifiers. A certification authority verifies the sender's identity and issues a certification code that mediates between the original email address and the recipient, ensuring authenticity without requiring complex changes to existing email infrastructure
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary verification by certifying email addresses before communication occurs. The certification authority validates senders in advance and issues certification codes that are attached to emails, preventing fraud before it happens rather than detecting it after delivery
2Reliability
If consumers verify email senders through phone or text messages, then reliability is improved, but loss of time increases due to manual verification
Solution Approach 1:
The certification system enables automatic self-service verification. Recipients can automatically verify sender authenticity by checking for the presence and validity of certification codes in emails, eliminating the need for manual phone or text message verification and reducing verification time to near-instantaneous automated checks
3Loss of information
If email marketing campaigns are sent without verification, then productivity is improved, but loss of information increases due to fraudulent emails being mistaken for legitimate marketing
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies certification selectively to specific email communications without affecting overall email marketing productivity. Legitimate marketing emails receive certification codes that distinguish them from fraudulent emails, allowing recipients to easily identify and accept genuine promotional content while blocking fake emails
Data Source
AI summary
A method for verifying an email includes storing a first email address and a first address of a first computer system associated with a first email user, and a second email address and a second address of a second computer system associated with a second email user. The method also includes receiving a first email indicating the first email address as an email sender, the first email indicating the second email address as an email recipient. The method further includes retrieving the first address and the second address based on receiving the first email. The method also includes sending an inquiry message requesting confirmation of the first email. The method further includes receiving a response message based on transmitting the inquiry message. The method still further includes sending an email confirmation message in accordance with the response message indicating that the first email is valid.