Email Intelligence

Email Lookup & Identity Verification

Verify any email address in real time — check deliverability, uncover linked social profiles, detect breach exposure, and surface the full digital identity behind every address.

200+ platforms scanned

Breach detection included

GDPR compliant

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14 profiles found

0 breaches

sarah.chen@gmail.com

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What you get

Every signal behind an email address

One API call returns a complete picture — from inbox validity and social footprint to breach history and digital identity depth.

Email Validity & Deliverability

Confirm whether an address exists, is active, and can receive mail — catching disposable, invalid, and catch-all addresses before they enter your system.

Social Media Profiles

Discover every social account linked to the email across 200+ platforms — LinkedIn, Twitter, GitHub, Instagram, and more — in a single enrichment call.

Breach Detection

Check whether the email has appeared in known data breach databases — a reliable signal for disposable, recycled, or bot-generated contact data.

Owner Identity Signals

Surface the name, username patterns, and identity consistency signals linked to the address — helping you understand who is really behind an email.

Digital Footprint Age & Depth

Measure how established the email's digital presence is — a 7-year-old address with 14 linked platforms is fundamentally different from a brand-new disposable one.

Risk & Fraud Score

A composite signal score combining deliverability, social presence, breach history, and footprint depth — a single number your risk model can act on.

How it works

From address to intelligence in four steps

Submit the email

Pass any email address to the IRBIS API — Gmail, corporate, or any domain worldwide

Scan 200+ sources

IRBIS queries social networks, breach databases, and identity registries simultaneously

Receive enriched data

A normalized JSON response returns validity, social profiles, breach data, and identity signals

Integrate & act

Feed results into your CRM, fraud system, KYC workflow, or lead scoring model automatically

Who uses it

Built for every team that works with email data

Email intelligence is foundational for any business that collects, processes, or acts on email addresses — from onboarding to outreach to fraud prevention.

E-Commerce

Validate customer emails at checkout, flag disposable addresses used for return fraud, and reduce chargebacks from fake account registrations.

Finance & Banking

Strengthen KYC with email intelligence — verify account holders, detect synthetic identities, and flag addresses with no digital footprint during onboarding.

Marketing & Lead Gen

Enrich inbound leads with social footprint depth and age before they enter your CRM. Score and route only the contacts most likely to convert.

SaaS Platforms

Block fake signups at registration. Detect multi-account abuse by cross-referencing email identity signals and linked usernames across platforms.

Cold Outreach & Sales

Verify that prospect emails belong to real people with genuine digital presence before adding them to sequences — protecting sender reputation.

OSINT & Investigations

Map the full digital identity behind an email — linked accounts, usernames, platforms, and presence history — for investigative and due diligence workflows.

API response fields

Every field returned by the email API

All signals delivered in one normalized JSON response — no stitching multiple sources together.

Validity & deliverability statusAlways returned

Linked social media profilesAlways returned

Breach count & exposure historyAlways returned

Footprint age & platform countAlways returned

Name & username signalsWhen available

Composite fraud / risk scoreWhen available

email-lookup-response.json

// POST /api/developer/combined_email { "id": 9041287, "status": "completed", "data": { "email": "sarah.chen@gmail.com", "valid": true, "deliverable": true, "disposable": false, "social_profiles": 14, "platforms": [ "linkedin", "twitter", "github", "instagram" ], "breaches": 0, "footprint_age": "7+ years", "name": "Sarah Chen", "risk_score": 94 } }

FAQ

Common questions

What does the email lookup tool check?

It verifies email validity and deliverability, discovers linked social media profiles across 200+ platforms, checks breach databases, measures digital footprint age and depth, and surfaces name and identity signals — all in one call.

Which email providers are supported?

IRBIS supports virtually all email addresses — Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, Apple, and corporate domains. Disposable and catch-all addresses are detected and flagged automatically.

How accurate is the social profile discovery?

IRBIS scans 200+ platforms and cross-references results for consistency. Platform count and footprint age are highly reliable signals. The number of profiles returned varies by the individual's online presence.

Is my search confidential?

Yes. All lookups are completely confidential. No record of your query is shared with the owner of the email being researched. ESPY is GDPR-compliant and ISO 27001 certified.

Can businesses use this via API?

Absolutely. The IRBIS REST API supports full programmatic access with JSON responses and async job processing for high-volume pipelines. Documentation is at api-docs.espysys.com.

How quickly does the lookup return results?

Email validity returns within seconds. Full social enrichment uses an async model — typically completing within 15–30 seconds depending on platform availability and footprint depth.