E-Scam will protect Earthlink customers by roviding real-time risk score, detailed geographical information about the website and validity of the URLs.

Digital Envoy, a provider of IP Intelligence solutions, today announced that EarthLink, an Internet service provider (ISP), has selected Digital Envoy's E-Scam anti-phishing solution to provide additional protection against phishing attacks for ScamBlocker. 

E-Scam is an anti-phishing tool that financial service organizations, ISPs and other large enterprises use to protect their customers in real time. E-Scam utilizes Digital Envoy's patented IP Intelligence technology - which uncovers information about online users such as location, domain name, and connection speed, based solely on IP addresses – and a rules-based engine to make real-time decisions about the risk associated with a given e-mail, such as the true location of the mail server and the validity of embedded URLs.

E-Scam will allow EarthLink customers to make more informed decisions about the risk associated with sites to which they are navigating by providing a real-time risk score and detailed geographical information about the website. ScamBlocker is the ISP's protection feature that warns users about accessing known or suspected fraudulent URLs that mimic legitimate Web sites and are intent on stealing personal information.

"Digital Envoy's E-Scam product further enhances ScamBlocker's ability to quickly analyze fraudulent phisher sites and alert consumers before they make a mistake of accessing fraudulent Web sites," said Matt Cobb, vice president of core applications at EarthLink.