SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING LIKELIHOOD OF PHONE NUMBERS BEING USED FRAUDULENTLY BASED ON INTELLIGENCE DERIVED FROM QUERIES RELATED TO ACTIVITIES INVOLVING THE PHONE NUMBERS
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING LIKELIHOOD OF PHONE NUMBERS BEING USED FRAUDULENTLY BASED ON INTELLIGENCE DERIVED FROM QUERIES RELATED TO ACTIVITIES INVOLVING THE PHONE NUMBERS
A computer includes a processor that determines fraud risk levels for phone numbers, by performing the steps of: continually monitoring a network connection for queries received from computers of a plurality of organizations, wherein each of the queries includes a phone number; for each query received, extracting and storing the phone number; for each phone number, determining a likelihood that the phone number has been used fraudulently, based at least on one of: (1) a frequency of the phone number being included in the queries, and (2) a number of different organizations that sent queries including the phone number; and determining a fraud risk level for each phone number based at least on the determined likelihood that the phone number has been used fraudulently, and transmitting a notification to one or more organizations when the fraud risk level of any of the phone numbers exceeds a threshold fraud risk.