Read Persona’s 2026 H1 selfie fraud report and find out what's actually happening
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Fraud prevention

Block identity theft, not trusted users. Research-backed defenses informed by billions of transactions.
Protect users against a broad range of schemes

Identify bots, deepfakes, synthetic identities, identity mules, and other emerging vectors with tools that adapt as the fraud you face changes.

Explainable fraud intelligence you can tune

Understand how identity verification checks and risk signals led to an outcome and configure rules to translate your unique risk requirements into action.

Target friction for thieves, not genuine users

Define your organization’s risk thresholds and prompt additional verifications to users only when risk signals indicate added scrutiny is needed.

Fraud Prevention

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Research-backed, field-tested adaptive safeguards

Make verification easier for genuine users

Give users custom-branded, localized verification flows that are designed to move users through quickly.

Build confidence in who you can trust

Verify users through their preferred methods while collecting visual, image, device, network, and behavioral risk signals.

Protect users with minimal friction starts with context

Use trusted records to protect against impersonation

Confirm consistency and surface risk by comparing submitted identity data with authoritative records, issuing sources, and watchlists.

Make sure genuine verifications stand apart from fraudulent ones

Apply verification-specific checks, like ID formatting, then layer ensemble signals for fraud vectors like injection attacks.

Verify identity attributes

Increase assurance only when it’s needed

Turn your risk policies into automated workflows that block high-risk users or collect additional evidence through step-up verification.

Spot broader patterns before they impact your community

Reveal hidden relationships across multiple degrees of connection, through attributes like image similarity, shared devices, and networks.

Automate risk policies
Persona's fraud defense is built on research, not guesswork

Persona's research team collaborates with leading universities and research communities to ensure that our models and products stay at the leading edge of identity, machine learning, and computer vision research. Learn more about Persona's collaborations and read the peer-reviewed publications.

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Explore Persona’s latest fraud capabilities

Build layered defenses against today’s major identity fraud vectors

Contain sophisticated fraud before impact spreads
Contain sophisticated fraud before impact spreads
Fraud rings

Find coordinated fraud through signs of location masking, scripting, and other shared attributes.

Deepfakes

Combine visual analysis with device, network, and submission context to unveil signs of GenAI usage and video manipulation.

Identity mules

Detect mule activity by finding shared patterns, such as similar images or devices, across seemingly trustworthy legitimate IDs and faces.

Synthetic IDs

Uncover fabricated identities by validating personal information against trusted data sources and phone and email risk indicators.

Bots

Surface automated attacks through behavioral patterns or device signals that indicate scripting and other non-human activity.

Account takeover attempts

Confirm user identity before high-risk activities, such as large withdrawals, through a variety of methods from quick selfie checks to full verifications.

Build trust into every verification method
Digital ID

Authenticate users through each scheme’s native flow and use trusted digital credentials to verify identity with minimal friction.

Government ID

Evaluate encoded data and visual document features, from barcodes and MRZs to colors and layouts, to surface signs of manipulation.

Selfie comparison

Compare the selfie with the ID portrait to help confirm that the presenter matches the document.

Trusted, reliable databases

Validate extracted or entered personal information against reliable databases to surface mismatches and potentially fabricated identities.

Screening reports

Screen users against global sanctions, watchlists, and adverse media with configurable matching to tune precision.

Supplemental documents

Assess financial statements, utility bills, and other supplemental documents across any format for inconsistencies and signs of manipulation.

Research-backed advancements for stronger assurance
Threat Domain Partitioning and Sorted Rejection Labeling

Learn how our innovations in partitioning and labeling enable rapid deployment cycles that match the pace of adversarial adaptation.

Layout-Aware Representation Learning for Open-Set ID Fraud Discovery

See how we use known ID layouts to detect minuscule formatting differences that can reveal manipulated documents.

2026 H1 selfie fraud report

Read what over 27 million fraudulent selfie verifications from early 2026 tell us about how attacks are changing.