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The Synthetic Identity Playbook
Fraud, artificial intelligence, and the collapse of identity verification. A 25,000-word field guide for banks, investigators, and practitioners — written by a former federal prosecutor.
What's inside
- Foundations — what synthetic identity fraud is, why "synthetic" is not "stolen," and how AI commodified it
- Anatomy — how synthetic identities are built, from the face and voice to the corporate shell (the Five V’s)
- Typologies — bank and lending fraud, romance and pig butchering, employment fraud, benefits, and the deepfake executive
- A guide for banks — people, process (NIST 800-63-4), technology, and defense in depth that actually holds
- A guide for law enforcement — triaging the synthetic case, evidence and attribution, charging strategy
- A guide for practitioners — the statutory toolkit, the Section 1028A problem after Dubin, advising the institutional client
- Plus policy and the road ahead, a glossary, a statute quick-reference, and fully cited sources
Written by Brooke, a former federal prosecutor who founded a public-private working group, with a federal Office of Inspector General, dedicated to preventing synthetic identity fraud.
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