Feature Comparison
| What you need to do | myNetWatchman | Emailage |
|---|---|---|
| Detect if an email is actively compromised right now | ✔ Live signal — 45-second refresh from criminal infrastructure | ✗ No active compromise detection |
| Identify tumbled / swapped email patterns | ✔ Detects bulk address variations routing to different mailboxes | ✗ Not supported |
| Synthetic account linkage | ✔ Real-time observation of fraudulent account creation | ◐ Partial — consortium-based, not real-time |
| False positive rate | ✔ Near zero — bad-actor traffic only | ✗ Moderate–High — mixed user behavior |
| Data source | ✔ Proprietary — purpose-built live attack network | Consortium — shared across customers |
| Signal refresh rate | ✔ 45 seconds from detection | Varies — batch processing |
| PII-based identity correlation | ✗ No PII required or used | ✔ Available |
| Database scale | ✔ 42B+ credential pairs · 7B emails · 2M+ added daily | 5B+ emails · 2.8B+ phones |
| Global coverage | ✔ | ✔ |
Emailage (now part of LexisNexis Risk Solutions) built its email risk platform on consortium intelligence — signals pooled across its customer network. That approach has real value for identity verification and fraud scoring. But it has a fundamental blind spot: it can only tell you what already happened.
myNetWatchman Email Reputation works differently. Our signals come from a proprietary network continuously harvesting live telemetry from active criminal infrastructure — the same proxies, botnets, and fraud tools bad actors use every day. The result is intelligence that arrives within 45 seconds of detection, derived exclusively from bad-actor traffic.
The critical difference: When a fraudster begins actively testing an email address or using it in an attack, myNetWatchman knows within 45 seconds. Emailage may never know — or may surface the signal weeks later through consortium data lag.
Where the gap is largest
Active Compromise — Right Now
Emailage tells you about historical risk. myNetWatchman tells you if an email is under active attack at this exact moment — derived from live criminal infrastructure, not consortium data.
Tumbled Email Detection
Emailage doesn't detect tumbled or swapped email patterns — bulk address variations that route to different mailboxes. myNetWatchman catches this technique used to create thousands of accounts while evading alias detection.
Near-Zero False Positives
Emailage mixes legitimate user behavior into its consortium signals, driving moderate-to-high false positive rates. myNetWatchman signals come exclusively from bad-actor traffic — so you block fraud, not customers.
By the time consortium signals surface, the fraud has already happened. We needed to know the moment a credential or email was being actively exploited — not weeks later.
— Fraud Operations Lead, Tier-1 Retail Bank
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