He Used His Phone Number as His Social Security Number

Our AI fraud agent caught another fake merchant application. This time the identity was not stolen, it was invented: the Social Security Number was the applicant's own phone number, and the IRS letter was a forgery template. Here is what gave it away.

!AI fraud detection for merchant applications/blog-images/fraud-detection-ai-hero.png A few weeks ago I wrote about getting scammed twice by fake merchant applications, and how we built an AI agent to make sure it never happened again. Here is that story./blog/ai-fraud-detection-merchant-application