Dark Web Guide

Notice

Dark Web is currently unavailable. Please reach out to Vouched Support for any questions. 

Vouched's Dark Web feature is an add-on to Crosscheck that scan's the candidate's email address against several proprietary databases for malicious, identity-compromised, or criminal activity on the dark web.

It uses the person's email address to look up criminal activity on dark web sites and applications. Based on customer research, we expect dark web activity to be under 0.5% for most users. The data is displayed on the dashboard at the bottom of the Crosscheck tab.

Requirements

In order for Dark Web to run, the following requirements must be met:

• Dark Web must be run together with CrossCheck enabled. It cannot be run independently.

• Dark Web requires the candidate's email address to be submitted. If the verification job is submitted without an email address, the Dark Web results will not be displayed.

Enabling Dark Web 

You can enable Dark Web in the:

• JS Plugin by adding enableDarkWeb = true to the verification object.
• Send Invite API by adding "enableDarkWeb" : true to the request.
• CrossCheck API by adding "darkWeb" : true to the request.

If you're using a different integration method, please reach out to Vouched Support for assistance in enabling the Dark Web feature.

Dark Web results

When a Dark Web check is performed on a candidate, the following results are returned:

• Warning Signal: A signal shown on the job if the criminal activity passes a certain threshold.
• Criminal Max Score: Dark web collections are scored from 1-5 in terms of severity. This feature provides the score of the top ranking dark web source associated with the email so you can immediately assess user risk.
• Criminal Last Seen: Last observed time email was used in dark web collections.
• Criminal Count: The number of instances where the email was found in dark web data collections.