Fraudsters submit forged contracts, doctored bank statements and AI-generated evidence that can decide a case or sink a deal. VerifyPDF flags the manipulated ones in under 5 seconds, with forensic evidence that holds up.
US court cases where litigants submitted AI-generated fake citations, statutes or quotations (NCSC)
Of analyzed M&A deals had EBITDA off by over 20%, often from misrepresented or fraudulent data (Guardian Due Diligence)
Year-over-year rise in business fraud losses, now 9.8% of US company revenue (TransUnion)
To verify a document vs hours of manual forensic review
Modern document fraud is invisible to the human eye. Anyone can edit a contract, bank statement or exhibit directly in the PDF content layer, or generate a convincing fake from scratch with AI. The formatting matches, the signatures look right and a careful read never catches it. Manipulated screenshot and photo submissions alone rose 40% in a single year.
Signatures get lifted, clauses get swapped and dates get changed directly in the PDF. A valid digital signature only confirms a document was not altered after signing, not that its contents are truthful or that the signer is who they claim to be.
Bank statements, invoices and financial records are edited in the content layer to support a claim, a damages figure or a valuation. In M&A diligence, 40% of analyzed deals had EBITDA off by over 20%, often from misrepresented or fraudulent data.
Deepfake videos, fabricated receipts and HTML-injected screenshots now reach the evidence file. US courts have logged over 350 cases of litigants submitting nonexistent citations and quotations generated by AI tools.
A screenshot or a photo of a screen carries no metadata and no content layer, so document forensics cannot run on it. With browser developer tools a balance changes from EUR 3,000 to EUR 3,000,000 in under a minute, and the screenshot looks identical to the real thing. VerifyPDF's own volume shows manipulated screenshot submissions up 40% in a year.
Read why screenshots fail as evidence
A green checkmark in Adobe Reader only confirms the file was not altered after signing. A fraudster can draft a fake contract in Word, sign it with a legitimate service and produce a document that looks airtight. Forensics goes deeper, checking content, metadata and consistency across the file.
Read why signatures are not enoughBuild document verification into your intake, discovery and due diligence workflows. Every PDF is analyzed in under 5 seconds, with detailed forensic evidence when manipulation is detected.
Detect traces of PDF editors, creation timestamps that do not match the issuer and software signatures that reveal a contract or exhibit was altered or generated by AI rather than produced by its claimed source.
Identify direct text modifications, swapped signatures, font inconsistencies and layered edits, catching the invisible changes a careful read of an exhibit will always miss.
Match documents against our database of known bank statement and document formats across more than 90 countries to confirm a financial record or statement came from its claimed source, so a convincing forgery cannot pass as genuine.
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