Relationship graph
Also known as: Link analysis · Entity resolution graph · Fraud ring detection
A representation of the connections between people, companies, addresses, devices and assets, used to surface ties no single record shows.
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One borrower linked to 3 prior cases that individual analysis could not see.
Examined alone, a record can look spotless: valid ID, no sanctions hit, confirmed address. A graph asks a different question — who is this person connected to — and that is where organized fraud appears.
Fraud at scale reuses resources: the same address, the same phone, the same device, the same beneficial owner behind different LLCs, the same operating pattern across cases nobody cross-referenced. Each passes individual review precisely because individual review cannot see the others.
In practice it is what separates a bad payer from a ring: a borrower whose file was clean turns out, in the graph, to connect to three prior cases of the same kind. The same technique underlies money-mule detection and beneficial-ownership analysis in AML programs.