The Day Your Identity Disappeared: Episode 3: The Digital Trail

Time: 14:00 BST
Duration: 45 minutes (includes Q&A)

Fourteen accounts at different banks. All opened with stolen identities. All designed to look completely unrelated. But when investigators analyse the digital fingerprints behind the applications, connections emerge with shared IP addresses, matching device identifiers, email patterns that were never meant to be found.

The money trail reveals something even more sophisticated. Fake companies. Fake payrolls. Tax refunds claimed on income that was never earned. The stolen identities weren’t used to steal money. They were used to create it.

Then the device fingerprints match activity in two other regions. This was never about one bank.

You will walk away with:

• How entity resolution connects accounts and transactions deliberately designed to look unrelated
• Techniques for detecting financial structuring — transactions calibrated to avoid reporting thresholds
• How device fingerprint expansion uncovers connected criminal activity across jurisdictions