What E-Hawk does

E-HAWK LLC is a privately held cloud-based fraud detection and prevention API provider, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Saratoga Springs, New York, with additional offices in New York and the Netherlands. The company's core Vetting API performs hundreds of real-time risk assessments on user signups and lead submissions, analyzing data vectors including IP, email, phone, domain, activity velocity, geolocation, device fingerprints, tags, and community intelligence to identify phishers, bots, spammers, fraudsters, and high-risk users within seconds. Target customer segments include Risk and Fraud Managers, Lead Buyers and Marketing Managers, Email Delivery and Compliance Teams, and a Community segment of ESPs, ISPs, and online businesses that contribute and consume anonymized fraudster fingerprints through the Community Feed-API. The platform supports ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA, and Safe Harbor compliance, offers an Obfuscate API for privacy masking, and advertises 99.9%+ uptime SLA across its service endpoints.

The product portfolio is anchored by the Vetting API and extends across eleven documented API surfaces plus the Talon.js device fingerprinting library, a Combo Scoring engine supporting up to 250 rules per API key with regex and wildcard support, a Campaign IP Blocklist API for ad-platform integration with Google and Bing, an Alerts API that notifies customers when risk levels change post-vetting, and a self-service reporting and analytics portal. The platform's differentiation rests on community-driven fraudster intelligence sharing combined with configurable rule-based scoring rather than on a proprietary AI model; underlying technology is described as advanced analytics, big data, and machine learning without further model-level disclosure.

E-HAWK operates an API-first go-to-market motion with a freemium trial that requires a business email and qualification by the sales team. Commercial model combines usage-based pay-as-you-go credit purchases with subscription plans offering prepaid credits, annual or multi-year billing, and separately billed overages; specific pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. The company has not raised institutional funding, operates with a 1-10 person team led by founders Peter Cholnoky (CEO, ex-Apple, 35+ years high-tech), Raymond Dijkxhoorn (CTO, SURBL founding member, ISP/ESP architect), and the late Tom Shaw (40+ years engineering, 30+ years national intelligence), and continuously ships API version updates across the product surface.

Name

E-Hawk

Legal name

E-HAWK LLC

Website

https://ehawk.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

E-HAWK provides a cloud-based fraud detection and prevention API that runs hundreds of real-time risk assessments on user signups and leads, serving risk managers, lead buyers, marketing teams, and a community of ESPs, ISPs, and online businesses sharing anonymized fraudster intelligence.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Fraud Detection Software

NAICS

Investigation and Personal Background Check Services (561611), Investigation and Security Services (5616)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Verification & Risk Signals (Device Fingerprinting, Behavioral Biometrics) (HDADALAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Fraud Detection & Transaction Monitoring (FSAMALAA), Marketplace & Platform Trust & Safety (Buyer/Seller Abuse) (HDADALAI)

Keywords

• Fraud detection API
• Risk scoring platform
• Lead verification service
• Signup fraud prevention
• Device fingerprinting software

Headquarters

HQ city

Saratoga Springs

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. API/Vetting Services: Revenue generated through the purchase of vetting credits or tokens, and pay-as-you-go service accounts. Fees are paid in advance and are non-refundable. Overages are charged separately. The service also offers subscription plans with prepaid credits.
2. Community Data Services: Feed-API submissions allow customers to contribute and consume community fraudster intelligence data. Submissions enable fraudster fingerprint profiling across the network.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

E-Hawk provides a cloud-based fraud detection and prevention API that performs hundreds of real-time risk assessments on user registrations and lead capture data. The service analyzes IP, email, phone, domain, device, geolocation, velocity, and community intelligence data points to identify phishers, bots, spammers, fraudsters, and high-risk users within seconds. Customers integrate the API into web forms, CRMs, and backend systems to accept or reject users automatically based on configurable scoring rules.

Product overview

E-HAWK is a fraud detection and prevention platform offering a cloud-based API service that identifies phishers, bots, spammers, fraudsters, and high-risk users through real-time risk assessments. The core product is the Vetting API, which runs hundreds of checks on signups and leads analyzing data across IP, email, phone, domain, device, and community sources. The platform includes a Reporting and Analytics Portal for dashboard review and alerts, the Community Feed-API for shared fraudster intelligence across organizations, Combo Scoring for custom risk rules, Campaign IP Blocklist API for blocking fraudulent campaign traffic, and Obfuscate API for privacy compliance. Optional Talon.js provides enhanced device fingerprinting. The system processes both individual API calls and ongoing activity monitoring to detect emerging risks.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Vetting API The core real-time risk assessment API that runs hundreds of checks on signups and leads, analyzing IP, email, phone, domain, activity, velocity, uniqueness, geolocation, device, tags, and community data to identify phishers, bots, spammers, and fraudsters. Designed for developers and businesses integrating risk scoring into web forms, CRMs, LMS, and backend systems.
• Reporting and Analytics Portal Web-based portal providing dashboards, data reports, trend analysis, and alerts for reviewing risk assessments, lead quality, and campaign performance. Allows users to manage API keys, configure settings, and monitor alerts.
• Community Feed-API Community database API that aggregates and shares anonymized fraudster data including phone numbers, emails, domains, IPs, and other identifiers across ESPs, ISPs, and businesses to enable rapid identification of known cyber criminals through pooled intelligence.
• Talon.js JavaScript library for device fingerprinting and analysis providing device identification signals that enhance fraud detection accuracy on customer websites.
• Campaign IP Blocklist API Standalone API that provides real-time lists of IPs per campaign to block, reducing click and lead fraud for web campaign traffic by blocking bad IPs in ad platforms like Google and Bing.
• Obfuscate API Standalone API that replaces personal data with masked 'Data Obfuscated' values for GDPR and privacy law compliance, replacing IP, email, name, street, city, state, postal code, and phone with masked values.
• Alerts and Alert API Standalone real-time alert system and API that tracks changes in risk levels for IPs, emails, phones, and fingerprints, notifying users when previously safe data points become associated with new risks.

Quantifiable outcome

• Real-time vetting completed in seconds
• +2 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability3 records

Feature5 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• SEON: Offers a digital fraud prevention API combining email, phone, IP, device, and behavioral signals for onboarding and transaction risk. Comparable to E-Hawk in API-first model, configurable scoring, and target customers in fintech and online marketplaces.
• MaxMind: Provides IP geolocation, proxy detection, and risk scoring services widely used in fraud prevention workflows. Comparable to E-Hawk's IP, geolocation, and activity-velocity checks that power its Vetting API.
• IPQS (IPQualityScore): Provides a fraud detection API that scores IP addresses, emails, phones, and devices in real time for signup and transaction risk. Closely comparable to E-Hawk's Vetting API in API-first delivery, data vectors analyzed, and developer/enterprise customer base.

Broad incumbents

• Ekata (TransUnion): Provides identity verification and risk APIs covering email, phone, address, and IP reputation. Comparable to E-Hawk's email, phone, and IP verification dimensions within its Vetting API.
• DataDome: Bot and online fraud protection platform serving websites, mobile apps, and APIs with real-time detection. Comparable to E-Hawk in API-based delivery and real-time signup/lead abuse prevention, with a broader product portfolio.
• Sift: Large, venture-backed digital trust and safety platform offering account takeover, content abuse, and payment fraud detection. Comparable in fraud-detection functionality but much broader in portfolio and considerably larger in scale.
• Arkose Labs: Provides bot management and account takeover prevention using device fingerprinting, behavioral analytics, and challenges. Comparable to E-Hawk's Talon.js fingerprinting and signup-abuse prevention capabilities.
• Kount (Equifax): Established payment fraud and account takeover prevention platform with identity data and ML-based risk scoring. Comparable to E-Hawk's fraud detection and risk scoring capabilities, particularly for e-commerce and digital onboarding.

Emerging players

• Sardine: Fraud and compliance platform for fintechs combining device intelligence, behavioral biometrics, and identity data. Comparable to E-Hawk's device, behavior, and risk-scoring approach, focused on digital onboarding.
• Persona: Identity verification platform offering flexible KYC/KYB, document, and database checks for onboarding flows. Adjacent to E-Hawk's signup vetting, with overlap on identity and risk signal use cases.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/nofraudsters
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/e-hawk

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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