Glossary term
Face Swap
Definition
A face swap is a deepfake technique that replaces one person's face with another's in an image or video while preserving expressions, lighting, and head movement. Real-time face-swap tools can now run inside a live webcam feed, letting an attacker present someone else's face during a video call.
Why it matters for financial institutions
Face swaps directly target the verification steps financial institutions trust most: selfie-to-document matching in KYC, video interviews for high-risk onboarding, and video calls used to authorize exceptional transactions. A successful swap lets a fraudster onboard with a stolen or synthetic identity that visually matches the presented documents.
How FalsiFind addresses it
FalsiFind's image and video pipelines detect the blending boundaries, texture inconsistencies, and temporal artifacts that face-swap generators leave behind, scoring both static KYC images and live video streams so swapped faces are flagged before verification succeeds.