The Forged Document Problem AI Made Worse, and the Detection Desk That Answers It
A paystub edited in a browser tab used to need a steady hand. Now it needs a prompt. The volume of altered and fully synthetic income and asset documents hitting mortgage intake is rising because the tools to make them got free and good, and the human eye that used to catch the clumsy ones is no match for the clean ones. What a document-authenticity agent actually checks beyond reading the numbers, why the detection model is itself governed under SR 11-7, and where catching a forgery becomes a SAR obligation rather than a decline.