Spotting Manipulated Mobile Banking Receipts: A Visual Guide

The Growing Menace of Fake Payment Proofs

For micro and small online merchants, manual bank transfer receipts remain a common payment method exploited by scammers.

4 Tell-Tale Signs of a Forged Slip

1. Font Inconsistencies — Fake receipts show blurriness around the transfer amount.
2. Incoherent Timestamps — The visible time contradicts the reference sequence code.
3. Clashing Kerning — Irregular digit alignment points to text manipulation.
4. No Ledger Mutation — Always verify actual ledger credit; never trust an image alone.