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Fraud Prevention With Branta

What Fraud Looks Like

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    Your customer goes to pay you.

    They scan your invoice, and the wallet says who is on the other end: your business's name and logo, verified by Branta.

An Address Can Change Anywhere

Branta makes sure the address is the same, from the moment an invoice is created to the moment the payment leaves.

  1. Where the address can change

  2. Onboarding

    Relationship opened

    KYC / AML

    Checks who the counterparty is.

  3. Approval

    Address approved

    Whitelisting

    Checks the address once, on the day it is approved.

  4. Invoice

    Invoice created

    • Swapped address
    • Spoofed sender
    • Tampered invoice

    Branta

    Binds the address to the business that issued it.

  5. In transit

    Invoice travels

    • Compromised mailbox
    • Lookalike domain
    • Injected checkout script

    Branta

    Lets the payer check who they are paying, from email, a link or a checkout page.

  6. Send

    Payment leaves the wallet

    • Clipboard malware
    • Hijacked DNS
    • Man-in-the-middle

    Branta

    Shows the business's name and branding on the confirm screen.

  7. SettlementFinal

    Payment settles

    Post-transaction detection

    Traces where the money went.

Beside the controls you already run

Acts at onboarding

KYC / AML

KYC and AML establish who you are dealing with when the relationship is opened, and for most desks they are a legal requirement rather than a choice. What they verify is the counterparty's identity — not the address printed on today's invoice.

What it does

  • Establish who the counterparty is
  • Satisfy a legal requirement

What Branta adds

  • Verify the address on today's invoice
  • Catch an invoice tampered in transit
  • Run on every invoice, not once at onboarding

Acts at approval

Whitelisting

A whitelist answers “was this address correct?” once, on the day it was approved. Branta answers “is this address correct?” every time an invoice is created.

What it does

  • Block an address that was never approved

What Branta adds

  • Re-check the address on every invoice
  • Catch an approved address that later goes bad
  • Work the first time you pay someone new
  • Need no list kept up to date

Acts at settlement

Post-Transaction Detection

Blockchain analytics — tools like Chainalysis — read the chain after a transaction confirms, which is the right way to trace where money went and to meet reporting obligations. It answers after settlement, and a Bitcoin payment is final at settlement.

What it does

  • Trace where the money went
  • Meet reporting obligations

What Branta adds

  • Run before the payment leaves
  • Stop the money reaching an attacker
  • Leave you with the funds rather than a report

Watch Branta Check a Payment

From an integrated wallet and from a web checkout, with and without Branta.

See it in action