Investigate Fraud With Confidence — Without Exposing Your Organization

SockPuppet enables financial institutions, insurers, and asset recovery teams to safely investigate fraud, verify claims, and collect evidence, all without risking your analysts, sources, or exposure.

Financial crime and insurance fraud investigations require analysts to move fluidly across digital platforms: online platforms, marketplaces, messaging apps, community groups, and online claims channels.

Analysts often need to recreate user-facing workflows, observe public activity, validate reported claims, and follow digital trails. But doing this work from corporate infrastructure exposes internal networks and risks contaminating evidence. SockPuppet removes those barriers.

We provide ready-to-deploy research environments, each with their own distinct digital footprint and associated infrastructure where investigators can examine online behavior, verify claims, uncover fraud, engage with suspicious users when needed, and gather court-ready evidence without technical overhead or exposure to the organization.

What You Can Do With SockPuppet

  • Conduct Open-Source Investigations

    Review posts, comments, images, locations, lifestyle activity, employment claims, travel history, and relationship patterns using stable, non-attributable research environments.

  • Verify Customer Compliance & Regulatory Adherence

    Conduct discreet “mystery shopper” evaluations to confirm that vendors, partners, franchises, and customers are following required regulations. View the experience from multiple global vantage points, simulate purchase flows, and ensure compliance across regions without revealing your organization.

  • Support AML Investigations & High-Risk Customer Reviews

    Evaluate online presence, transactional behavior, and digital footprints tied to high-risk customers, shell entities, or suspicious activity reports. SockPuppet enables AML teams to safely verify identities, assess risk indicators, and gather open-source intelligence without exposing corporate systems.

  • Monitor Off-Platform Activity Linked to Financial Fraud

    Investigate online groups, marketplaces, channels servers, and communities where fraud schemes are planned or advertised.

  • Simulate Financial Transactions With Threat Actors

    Safely initiate buy/sell operations and validate scam workflows using secure non-attributable research environments. Investigators can perform financial transactions, verify claims, and assess fraud behavior end-to-end without exposing corporate accounts or internal infrastructure.

  • Assist With Asset Recovery & Fraud Proceeds Tracking

    Follow digital trails across marketplaces, online sources, and communication channels to identify where stolen goods, fraudulent payouts, or misappropriated assets may surface. Investigators can operate discreetly, gather evidence, and build timelines to support recovery and legal actions.

Features & Functionality Built for Financial Crime & Insurance Investigators

Fully Managed Investigation Environments

Investigators often lose valuable time building accounts and managing continuity. SockPuppet handles every part of that for you, giving analysts more time to focus on casework, verification, and fraud analysis.

Built-In OPSEC to Protect Your Investigators & Organization

Operate from isolated, non-attributable environments that never expose corporate networks, internal IPs, or analyst identity. SockPuppet ensures investigations are conducted safely, securely, and with chain-of-custody preserved throughout.

Advanced Evidence Capture & Full-Session Recordings

Capture every detail of an investigation with high-clarity videos, full-page captures, and immutable recordings of entire sessions. All evidence is timestamped, hash-validated, and ready for arbitration, SIU reviews, claims processing, or legal escalation.

Fast Switching Between Global Locations & Vantage Points

Analyze behavior, verify claims, and validate customer compliance from any regional perspective with real end-user geo-located IPs. Instantly pivot between global vantage points to observe region-specific fraud patterns, compliance issues, and user experiences.

Why Financial Crime & Insurance Teams Choose SockPuppet

  • Conduct online investigations safely and in isolation

  • Verify claims by reviewing lifestyle patterns & digital clues
  • Investigate scammers, mules, and online fraud networks
  • Maintain stable, persistent research environments across investigative operations
  • Reduce time spent managing accounts and environments
  • Produce legally defensible evidence for arbitration and SIU
  • Blend naturally into online ecosystems via mobile GEO IP

Investigate Fraud More Efficiently — Across Platforms, Markets & Social Channels

SockPuppet gives financial crime and insurance teams the secure investigative foundation they need to verify claims, uncover fraud, and protect their organization.