velocity checks
Detect High-Frequency Fraud Attempts in Real time
The industry’s first biometric-based velocity check to catch fraudsters who use the same identity multiple times.
A Biometric-based 
Velocity Check that Flags Fraud Instantly
The Velocity Check tool leverages sophisticated image comparison algorithms to detect when bad actors attempt to make a transaction or open an account with multiple identities using the same headshot or selfie. In this fraud technique, while a bad actor may use a different combination of identity documents, PII, or names with each instance, the headshot is the same.
Whether you want these transactions to be denied or just bucketed for additional review, workflows can be set based on custom criteria within the decisioning.
Here’s how Velocity Checks work.
- Bad actor attempts authentication using the same headshot or selfie in a predefined timeframe.
- Velocity Checks flag matching transactions that have a match for additional review by customer-driven fraud teams to validate the potential bad actor. Once a bad actor is determined, it’s a great opportunity to enroll the fraudster into Fraud Shield.
- Organizations can analyze trends, including the frequency a user triggers identity verification actions.
Velocity Checks can be used with any other tool in AuthenticID’s comprehensive suite of identity verification and fraud prevention solutions.
Shut Down Fraudsters, Immediately
Velocity Checks can be deployed quickly, and many of our customers realize the ROI after day one of deployment.
By comparing information from the current transaction to the biometric data gathered in past transactions, you can ensure fraudsters aren’t using the same image across multiple identity documents before they pass through your system multiple times.
Keep bad actors out while ensuring a smooth experience for legitimate users—no added friction, just smarter security.
See the frequency in which a user is performing activities that require identity verification actions to evaluate risk and fraud loss.
Friendly fraud and payment card fraud are frustrating and dangerous to someone’s livelihood and identity protection. With AuthenticID’s fraud detection software, your business can cut down on identity theft and make the internet a safer place.
Build trust and safety by eliminating bad actors within your user base.
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Explore how Velocity Checks is Instrumental Across Use Cases
Enhancements for the Most Comprehensive Identity Solution
AuthenticID’s facial biometric technology provides a fast, simple way to authenticate an individual by matching a person’s selfie to the photo on a government-issued ID, profile picture, or any other image of a person’s face with complete accuracy.
Our solution verifies the age of users and confirms age requirements in digital and retail channels via document scanning, selfie technology, or a combination of both. AuthenticID’s proprietary technology offers a critical barrier to keep consumers and businesses safe and lawful.
Fraud Shield is AuthenticID’s proprietary, fused biometric and biographic watchlist service, offering fraud detection and protection unlike anything else on the market. This “superpower” solution is nearly 100% accurate and can protect your company against even the most rapid, prolific, and sophisticated bad actors.
FAQs about Velocity Checks
READ MORE FAQsVelocity Checks can be used in conjunction with an organization’s existing or new identity verification and/or fraud detection platforms to allow for a robust fraud prevention and detection strategy. Velocity Checks increases the chances of identifying individual bad actors or fraud rings using multiple sets of identity documents with the same headshot. Organizations can gain better visibility into their system’s fraud patterns and fraudster behavior and monitor these high-velocity transaction attempts while establishing and monitoring these identity fraud trends.
Velocity Checks can be used to detect when fraudsters use the same image with multiple sets of identity documents to open fraudulent accounts and more. In addition, this tool can be used to help fight fraud types such as account takeover fraud, synthetic identity fraud, and more.
When using AuthenticID’s capture to take a picture of a headshot on an ID or a Selfie, both deepfake injection attack algorithms and liveness detection is leveraged to help prevent deepfakes and generative AI images.
Yes, Velocity Checks can be applied in any authentication workflow. Authentication workflows can be set up through web and mobile based experiences and  prompted during online, in store/branch or through customer contact center verifications.
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