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# Selfie ID Verification

Our Real-Time ID Verification solution offers a seamless and secure way to verify user identities using a combination of facial recognition technology, selfie verification, and liveness checks. This advanced process ensures the authenticity of identity documents and enhances security in online transactions.

{% hint style="info" %}
**Good to know:** All the methods shown below are synced to an example Swagger file URL and are kept up to date automatically with changes to the API.Vr
{% endhint %}

### Expected data returned

* [x] Verified ID check 

### Upload user selfie

## Create New Signed Link.

<mark style="color:green;">`POST`</mark> `https://api.akibadigital.com/v1/customer`

Upload a new selfie.

#### Headers

| Name                                           | Type   | Description            |
| ---------------------------------------------- | ------ | ---------------------- |
| Token<mark style="color:red;">\*</mark>        | String | Your Access auth token |
| Content-Type<mark style="color:red;">\*</mark> | String | application/json       |

#### Request Body

| Name                                         | Type   | Description                                                                       |
| -------------------------------------------- | ------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| identifier<mark style="color:red;">\*</mark> | string | The unique `id` of the customer (type and code of Id: national Id or company reg) |
| type<mark style="color:red;">\*</mark>       | string | `1` for individual and `2` for business                                           |
| selfie\_filename                             | string | The filename of the selfie doc                                                    |

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="200 Customer successfully created" %}

```javascript
{
    "identifier"="93055521xxx",
    "signed_link": "http://example.com",
    "s3_key": "string",
    "selfie_filename": "string",
    "customer_id": "A3020FM2PX"

}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="401 Permission denied" %}

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

### Verify user selfie

## Verify a Customer.

<mark style="color:green;">`POST`</mark> `https://api.akibadigital.com/v1/customer/verify`

#### Request Body

| Name                                               | Type   | Description                                            |
| -------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| selfie\_filename<mark style="color:red;">\*</mark> | string | The name of the selfie filename                        |
| id<mark style="color:red;">\*</mark>               | string | The `id` of the customer (registration or national Id) |
| user\_type<mark style="color:red;">\*</mark>       | string | 1 for individual and 2 for business                    |
| s3\_key<mark style="color:red;">\*</mark>          | string | Key you've received in response to get signed link     |

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="200 Customer successfully created" %}

```javascript
{
    "status": "success",
    "message": "Identity and Selfie succesfully verified",
    "data": {
        "identity": {
                "_id": "5ea1812477c7700382b20edc",
                "id_number": "12345678989",
                "firstname": "FRANK",
                "lastname": "NONO",
                "fullname": "FRANK HLATSWAYO NONO",
                "dob": '1991-12-12',
                "gender": 'M',
                "marital_status": 'Single',
                "middlename": null,
                "photo_id": [
                    {
                        "_id": "5eaffd51f61c0e7bccf68c2d",
                        "url": "LINK TO SELFIE"
                    }
                ],
                "fraud_score": "0.21",
                "fraud_detected": "Low",
                "facial_recognition_confidence":"0.95",
                "created_at": "2020-04-23T11:51:00.286Z",
                "last_updated": "2020-12-21T17:45:25.908Z",
            }
    }
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="401 Permission denied" %}

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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