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Impersonation Fraud Prevention
Stop the Impersonation Fraud Protect the real customer
Shufti detects ai impersonation fraud across the identity journey, deepfake faces, fabricated documents, stolen credentials, and coached sessions, on government-validated biometrics.
Every Impersonation Attempt We Catch Makes The Next One Harder To Run
Where Impersonation Fraud Strikes
Onboarding
Attacker submits a real person’s identity using AI-manipulated documents or a deepfake selfie. The account opens in the victim’s name and is immediately used for fraud or sold.
Login
Stolen credentials and injected biometric feeds bypass authentication. The attacker is inside the account with no suspicious login event on record.
Transaction
Wire transfers. Beneficiary swaps. Withdrawal requests. The financial loss leaves the account authorised by someone who believed they were talking to the right person.
Impersonators adapt their method to find the gap. Shufti closes each one individually
How Shufti Stops Online Impersonation Fraud
Deepfake Video Impersonation
When fraudsters use AI-generated faces, in real-time video calls, injected camera feeds, or deepfake selfies.
Repeat Impostor
When an attacker who failed verification once returns under a different claimed identity, new document, new name, same face.
Document Impersonation
When an attacker uses a real person’s identity with a fabricated or AI-manipulated document.
Helpdesk And Recovery Flow Impersonation
When attackers impersonate customers through recovery flows, claiming accounts, requesting credential resets, or initiating device changes.
eIDV Cross Check, Passive Impersonation Detection
When a document and face pass basic checks but the claimed identity doesn’t reconcile with authoritative sources.
INDUSTRY PLAYBOOK
Find your industry The threats you’re seeing, the control that stops them
The withdrawal window is the target
Block impersonation-driven account takeover at withdrawal and wallet-recovery fraud with biometric step-up and eIDV cross-check at every account-change event.
The Broader Platform
Shufti covers the full attack surface
What We Do
The core workflows Shufti delivers,verifying customers at onboarding and monitoring them throughout the full relationship. Every touchpoint, one platform.
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AI-powered document forensics, biometric verification, and real-time AML screening in one adaptive flow, verifying genuine customers while blocking synthetic identities at the door.
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Continuous screening against 4,000+ sanctions, PEP, and adverse media sources. Customer records rechecked within minutes of a list update, not at the next periodic review.
What We Solve
The compliance and identity challenges regulated businesses face, KYC, KYB, fraud, age, workforce, and investor verification, resolved without stitching vendors together.
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Document forensics, iBeta-certified biometric liveness, NFC chip verification, and AML screening through one API. Authenticate customers across 240+ regions actively processed from a single integration.
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Facial age estimation, doc less eIDV, and document DOB extraction combine into one flow, stopping underage access without driving away legitimate users.
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One configurable flow for document verification, face verification, eIDV, NFC, address verification, and AML screening. One integration, one audit trail, no vendor stitching.
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Live registry checks across 240+ regions actively processed, complete UBO due diligence, and AML screening in one flow.
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Accreditation validation, document forensics, and MLRO-backed review in one investor verification flow. Meet accredited-investor mandates across 240+ jurisdictions without additional vendors.
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Verified identity at every access control point, onboarding, account recovery, privileged access, and MFA re-enrolment, without replacing your existing IAM stack.
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Document forensics, biometric matching, and enhanced due diligence inside your hiring pipeline. Catch fraudulent applicants and AI-generated candidates at application stage, not after offer.
Business Outcome
The results Shufti delivers at scale, staying compliant, stopping fraud, building user trust, and expanding globally from a single integration.
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Automated KYC, KYB, and AML run across 240+ actively processed regions, with audit-ready evidence trails for every decision and sanctions data refreshed every 15 minutes, 96x faster than industry standard.
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40+ ensemble AI models across the full customer lifecycle. Independent testing: 8 of 8 document forgeries detected where legacy stacks caught zero.
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Verify users, sellers, workers, and businesses before risk reaches your platform. One trust layer across marketplaces, gaming, gig economy, fintech, and age-restricted services.
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240+ regions actively processed, Any government-issued document, 150+ languages. One API with jurisdiction-configurable workflows and regional cloud infrastructure across EU, UK, US, APAC, and MENA.
BUILT FOR YOUR TEAM
One Platform Every Stakeholder
Compliance Officer
Regulator-defensible audit trail at every account-change event.
See Compliance Officers →Product Manager
0.75s passive biometric. Legitimate pass rates up, fraud acceptance down. Live in a sprint.
See Product Managers →Developer
REST API, mobile SDKs, and sandbox access. First verification call within hours of integration start.
Explore Developers →Fraud Analyst
Signal-level Risk Score with full breakdown. >70% fraud reduction without growing the review queue.
Explore Fraud Analysts →
Shufti is top competitor serving global end users
Shufti delivers the widest global coverage with its own technology, ensuring flexibility, innovation, and stronger Extended IdV capabilities than regional or orchestrated competitors.
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Single API, Seamless Integration
Build fully customisable verification flows with seamless backend integration.
- Gain full control by customising verification flows end-to-end.
- Integrate seamlessly with your backend for quick implementation.
- Design flexible verification journeys tailored to your users.
Launch a native verification experience in your mobile app within minutes.
- Launch native verification within minutes on iOS or Android.
- Use ready-made UI with camera, capture, and real-time feedback.
- Customise flows to fit seamlessly into your mobile app.
With KYC Journey Builder, create personalised verification journeys without writing a single line of code.
- Customise your journey effortlessly with drag-and-drop functionality.
- Instantly see how your verification flow looks for your users.
- Easily connect with Hosted Verification for a consistent, branded experience.
Run Shufti within your own identical-capability infrastructure for maximum data control and privacy.
- Keep all sensitive information in-house to meet strict governance and data residency requirements.
- Keep sensitive information fully private and secure in-house.
- Deploy in highly regulated sectors without compromising compliance.
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March 2, 2026
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Shufti VideoIdent: Prevention Against Identity Fraud & Deepfakes
Multi-Layered Defence Against Deepfakes, Synthetic Media, and Identity Fraud
Product Brief
Frequently Asked Questions
What is impersonation fraud, and how does it differ from synthetic identity fraud?
Impersonation fraud uses a real, existing person’s identity to deceive a target into transferring funds or granting access. Synthetic fraud fabricates a new identity from invented data. The two require different defences: synthetic fraud is stopped at document forensics; impersonation requires biometric proof-of-person and expert human review at every live interaction.
Why do deepfake detection tools fail to stop impersonation in recovery flows?
Deepfake detection only fires at the biometric capture layer, it stops AI-generated faces during a selfie or verification session. Recovery-flow impersonation happens over the phone or messaging, where no liveness check fires at all. The solution is biometric step-up triggered at every account-change event, not just at onboarding.
How does Shufti address corporate impersonation, CEO and CFO deepfake fraud?
In 2024, attackers deceived an Arup finance worker into wiring $25M via a live deepfake video call of the CFO and colleagues. Shufti addresses this through VideoIdent’s expert-led video verification, a trained KYC specialist reviews the session in real time, producing a verified-identity record at the point of authorisation that a deepfake cannot pass.
How does Shufti detect a repeat fraudster using a different identity?
Shufti’s duplicate face detection cross-references every new biometric submission against previously flagged faces across the network. A fraudster who failed verification once, under any name, with any document, is matched on facial biometrics alone when they attempt re-entry. The identity changes. The face is permanent.
How does AI impersonation detection work at Shufti?
Four layers run simultaneously: iBeta Level 3-certified biometric liveness, 500+ ML detectors on every document, eIDV passive cross-check against authoritative sources across 85+ countries, and behavioural biometrics catching coached or remote-controlled sessions. A pass on one layer does not override a fail on another.
How fast can Shufti’s impersonation prevention go live?
Most clients reach production-grade impersonation detection within a single sprint via pre-built REST API, SDK, and no-code Journey Builder. Expert Agent Review, 24/7 coverage, no internal reviewer infrastructure required, activates on the same deployment.
Stop The Impersonator Protect The Real Customer
Deepfake attacks are occurring every five minutes. Your onboarding layer is not the only surface at risk. Shufti’s impersonation fraud prevention deploys in days, and the audit costs nothing