WattShed Signal
Run fraud-risk signals on evidence photos, before you rely on them.
This reads risk signals out of the photos themselves. It is not proof, and it is not an accusation. A clean report does not confirm a claim, and a flagged one is a reason to look closer, not a verdict on anyone.
Everything runs in this browser tab: photos are hashed, read for metadata, and decoded to a small comparison thumbnail on your device. Nothing is uploaded, sent to a server, or stored. Close the tab and it's gone.
Add photos for Application A, and, if you have a second application to compare, for Application B too. The two-application comparison exists to catch evidence recycled between applications: a photo submitted twice, under a different name or a different claimed date.
Add photos and run the analysis to see a report here.
Application A alone gets you the within-batch signals. Add Application B to also check the two applications against each other.
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What's checked
Five signal families, run across both applications at once.
Exact duplicates
The same photo file reused byte for byte, whether that's twice inside one application or copied across both.
Near duplicates
Photos that look the same to the eye but were re-saved, cropped, or lightly edited, caught by comparing image content rather than the file's raw bytes.
Timestamp collisions
Two photos claiming a capture moment that lines up too closely, including moments that line up between the two applications.
Device spread
How many distinct devices the batch's metadata points to, and whether that count makes sense for one piece of evidence.
Chronology
Whether the capture times across a batch, and across the two applications, tell a sequence that holds together.
Location and GPS are deliberately not part of this analysis. Nothing here reads, compares, or reports on where a photo was taken.
Each signal reports pass, flag, or absent. A flag means worth a second look, not a finding. Use this alongside your own judgment and, where it matters, a direct conversation with whoever submitted the photos.