Get Gmail Account Age

Question

My team is discussing how we can improve client fraud prevention algorithms. Not surprisingly, email addresses used in fraudulent activities are often registered with free email providers such as Gmail.

One of the criteria that we lose as a contribution to our fraud prevention system, which will give us very valuable information, is the age of the account.

Is there an API method (or any other way) that will allow us to request when a Gmail account was registered?

Something like https://api.gmail.com/age-of-account/ [e-mail] that returns the date or time since it was created would be very helpful.

Answer 1

You cannot receive when an account has been created through any existing Google API. You could probably get rid of a lot of low-hanging fruits with something in this direction using the Gmail API:

• Show message identifiers until the response nextPageToken. Then you will get the last page of message identifiers.
• Receive the last message and check if the value is less internalDatethan any cutoff value.

, Date, .