How does the Accounts Linked Threshold affect my multi-accounting score?

The Accounts Linked Threshold sets how many linked accounts a person can have before Verisoul scores them as high-risk based on multi-accounting alone. If you raise the threshold, the same links produce a lower multi-accounting score; if you lower it, they produce a higher one.

How linked accounts raise the score

Verisoul rolls up the strength of every link between accounts into one multi-accounting score. One strong match can push the score high on its own, while many weak matches add little. Details are in Multi-accounting.

• Exact matches on browser, email, phone, or username count at full strength.

• Device and network matches are probabilistic and count for less.

The multi-accounting score is one input to the overall account score. See the scoring overview.

Choosing a threshold

The default is 1.2, so a single perfect match scores high. A threshold of 3 lets one person hold up to 3 accounts before high scores start. The setting applies per project in project scoring settings.

1. Decide how many accounts per person are normal for your product, such as a shared household device.

2. Set the threshold to match. Extra links still add up, so a raised threshold softens one or two links more than five.

3. Review your Real, Suspicious, and Fake cut-offs afterward, since some accounts will move between decisions.

Does a linked account's own decision count? The score comes from how strong the links are and how many there are. Whether the linked accounts were marked Real or Fake plays no part.

When do existing accounts pick up the change? An account is rescored the next time it is opened in the dashboard or sent to the API. Your backend sees the new score on its next API call.

If you would like multi-accounting to stop counting toward the account score altogether, we can remove its weighting for a project. Accounts still link, and the multi-accounting score still shows.