The present application discloses a method and an apparatus for identifying false address information. Address information submitted by a user for an account associated with the user is received. Geographical location information of the user is received within a predetermined time period. A residential range of the user is determined in a geographical range obtained through pre-division based on a trained classification model and the geographical location information of the user. The address information to be verified is matched with the residential range to generate a matching result. Based on the matching result and using information in the account associated with the user, a determination is made whether the address information to be verified is false address information.