Players submit edited bank statements, fabricated deposit receipts and forged payment confirmations to clear enhanced due diligence. VerifyPDF flags every tampered PDF in under 5 seconds, before your compliance team approves it.
Year-over-year growth in online gambling fraud in 2024 (Sumsub iGaming Fraud Report)
Global gambling industry AML fines in 2024 (Sumsub)
Rise in deepfake-related fraud between Q1 2024 and Q1 2025 (Sumsub)
To verify a source-of-funds document vs a manual compliance review
Operators invest heavily in identity verification: selfie checks, liveness detection and biometric matching. Then a junior compliance officer is asked to eyeball a PDF bank statement during a source-of-funds review. That document is where the real fraud happens, and it is invisible to the human eye.
A player downloads a real statement from online banking, opens it in Adobe Acrobat Pro and changes a salary from 2,400 to 6,500 or adds deposits that never happened. The fonts match, the layout is perfect and the metadata stays intact. The analyst sees a clean PDF with plausible income and approves it in minutes.
A fake bank transfer confirmation or e-wallet receipt takes about 20 minutes to build in any design tool. The right logo, matching fonts and a plausible reference number are enough to clear a review, especially when an operator accepts image files with nothing to analyze forensically.
A screenshot of a statement strips away every forensic signal: creation date, producer software and document structure. Organized fraud rings sell ready-made templates for major European banks, and the same template often shows up across different players at the same operator within weeks.
In April 2025 the UK Gambling Commission warned that criminals are using deepfakes and AI-generated documents to bypass customer due diligence. Sumsub reported online gambling fraud rose 64% year-over-year, with four in five operators facing more fraud than the year before. The forged bank statements and deposit receipts behind those numbers are slipping past manual source-of-funds checks every day.
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Bank statements account for nearly three-fifths of all fraudulent submissions VerifyPDF sees across regulated industries, and online gambling operators process more of them every year. Forensic analysis shows 73% of fraudulent statements were edited directly in the PDF content layer, the kind of change no manual review will ever catch.
Read the full case studyAdd a document forensics layer to your source-of-funds and KYC workflow. Every PDF is analyzed in under 5 seconds, with detailed forensic evidence when a statement or receipt has been tampered with.
Detect traces of PDF editors, creation timestamps that do not match the stated bank and software signatures that reveal manipulation, so a statement edited the night before submission is flagged before you approve the deposit.
Identify direct text modifications, font inconsistencies and layered edits, catching the changed balance, the added transaction or the upgraded salary figure a busy compliance analyst will always miss.
Match documents against known bank and template formats to confirm a statement or receipt came from its claimed source, so a convincing forgery cannot pass as a genuine bank document during enhanced due diligence.
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Bank statements, deposit receipts and payment confirmations are uploaded during onboarding or enhanced due diligence.
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Each document receives a Trusted, Low Risk, Needs Attention or High Risk rating with detailed evidence of any detected modifications.
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