document fraud protection

Deepfakes and forged documents are a horror show for KYC teams.

Stop the horror and turn onboarding into a secure story. Scroll to see how forged documents and deepfakes hit verification workflows—and how DocGuard blocks them.

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The problem: forged documents and deepfakes are cheap and fast

A forged document is minutes of work, a deepfake video takes hours. Those minutes can cost the business tens, hundreds, or thousands of dollars in losses, chargebacks, investigations, and reputation damage.

This video demonstrates how threat actors bypass KYC; it is not a real attack.

Forger: a fraudster manipulating images, video, or audio.

Forger’s client: the customer who buys these services to commit fraud.

A hidden risk for businesses that process user-uploaded documents is manual document verification:

  • human reviewers can overlook forged or altered documents
  • heavy workloads increase error rates
  • manual review slows processing during peak demand
  • verification capacity is limited by working hours and staff availability
  • employees see sensitive documents, increasing the risk of internal data theft

Direct consequences for the business:

  • financial losses from fraud or unauthorized access
  • compromised user accounts and sensitive data
  • regulatory and legal exposure due to improper document handling
  • reputational damage after security incidents
.PSD Template Deepfake Printed Document
Timeframe for forger 30s–10m 6m–30m 7m–22m
Forger needs An original document or a template to edit High-quality photo (social), 5–30s of voice Printed template and lamination
Dark-market price $4-20 $40+ $10-18
Attacker difficulty Low: off-the-shelf tools + templates. Medium: data collection + generation. Higher: printing, materials, staging.
Defense difficulty Medium without multi-step verification. High without deepfake detection. High without physical/noise checks.
Detection latency (¹ others) ~7.2s ~25s No protection
Detection latency (DocGuard) ~4s ~12s ~36s
Protection (¹ others) Partial; catch obvious artifacts. Weak; miss chained attacks. Weak or missed; weak protection.
Protection (DocGuard) Yes Yes Yes, with configuration

¹ Timing based on products clients used before switching to DocGuard.

How we counter the threat

We don’t publish detection tactics because even tiny hints become bypass tools. We show outcomes: risk score, reasons, and recommended action.

Video analysis (multi-pass) + private methods

Multiple liveness and artifact checks build resilience to “quick” deepfakes and replays.

Documents: similar ideas, different tactics

Some principles overlap, but key document methods differ. Sharing details would be handing keys to attackers.

Privacy first: RAM-only analysis

Customer documents are never used for training and never written to disk. RAM-only processing reduces leak risk during manual reviews.

Time to stop the horror

Tell us about your KYC, onboarding, payouts, or marketplace flow — we’ll show where protection has the biggest impact.

Before vs after reliable protection

Fraud scales fast. Your verification should too.
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