Detect tampered and deepfake Board Resolution

What a genuine board resolution contains

A board resolution opens on company letterhead carrying the registered name, registered office, and company number, then gives the resolution number, the date, time, and place of the meeting, the directors present, and confirmation that a quorum was met. The resolved clauses follow, naming the authorised signatories with their designations and, where a bank mandate is involved, their signing limits and specimen signatures. It closes with the chairman's signature, a certification by a director or company secretary that this is a true copy of a resolution duly passed, the date of that certification, and the company seal where the constitution requires one.

The authority the document claims is only as good as the agreement between those parts. The directors who signed have to be the directors on the register as at the meeting date, the attendees listed have to satisfy quorum under the company's own articles, and the certification date cannot fall before the meeting it certifies. Resolution numbers run in the company's own sequence, so one out of order implies a meeting inserted after the fact. Specimen signatures have to match the execution block and the mandate already held on file.

How board resolution forgeries are made

• Signatory list insertion

  A name is added to the list of persons authorised to operate the company's accounts, usually an insider or a recruited mule. Nothing else on the resolution changes, and the inserted line is frequently set in the same font at a slightly different size or leading from the names above it.

• Director signature transplant

  Signatures are lifted from a filed document, an invoice, or a public filing and composited onto the execution page. Transplanted ink shows a sharpness and noise profile inconsistent with the rest of the scan, and often a hue that does not match the pen used elsewhere on the same page.

• Backdating the meeting

  The meeting date is moved earlier so that authority appears to predate a payment or a contract already executed. This is the forgery that turns an unauthorised transfer into an apparently approved one, and it leaves the meeting date at odds with the resolution sequence and the file's own timeline.

• Letterhead reconstruction

  The company's letterhead is rebuilt from a logo pulled off its website. A web logo carries the wrong resolution and often a residual background, so the reconstructed header prints with soft edges and colour values that differ from the company's real stationery.

• Seal and certification pasting

  The company seal and the secretary's certification are copied from a genuine resolution onto a new one. A pasted seal lies perfectly flat on the paper and shows none of the debossing or ink spread an impressed seal leaves behind.

• Meetings that never happened

  The entire minute is drafted for a board meeting that was never convened, using real director names taken from a registry extract. Every internal cross-check passes, so the document is separated instead by its print characteristics, its fonts, and the metadata of the file it arrived as.

What TamperCheck checks on a board resolution

TamperCheck runs 200+ forensic checks across three layers and returns a risk score from 0 to 100 with plain-English findings tied to specific regions of the document. These three carry the most weight on this document class.

• Stamp authenticity and placement

  Stamps are assessed for whether the ink was impressed onto the page or printed as part of it, and for whether the impression was placed digitally after the fact.

• Letterhead, logo, and issuer plausibility

  Issuer branding is checked for resolution and compression consistency against the body text it sits on. A logo lifted from a website carries the signature of its source, not of the document.

• Date and validity consistency

  Issue, expiry, and period dates are checked against one another and against the file's own creation metadata, which catches backdating and validity extension.

• And many more checks

  The three above are the layers that carry the most weight on a board resolution. Every upload runs the full suite of 200+ checks regardless of document class, spanning file structure and metadata, pixel-level forensics, font and text rendering, optical and print characteristics, provenance signals, AI-generation signatures, and many more checks.

Who verifies a board resolution, and why

Corporate banking and legal teams confirming signing authority. In each case the document is being used to unlock money, access, or a legal status, which is exactly what makes it worth forging.

How to verify a board resolution in 4 steps

1. 1

   Match the signatories against the register

   Confirm every director who signed was in office on the date of the meeting according to the company register, and that the attendees listed satisfy quorum under the company's articles. A signature from someone who had already resigned settles the question on its own.

2. 2

   Compare specimen signatures against the mandate

   Set the specimen signatures on the resolution beside the mandate and any earlier resolutions you hold. Look at stroke order, pen pressure, and the way each signature terminates, rather than at overall shape, which is what a tracing reproduces best.

3. 3

   Check the date sequence

   The meeting date, the resolution number's place in the company's sequence, and the certification date have to be consistent with one another and with the transaction the resolution authorises. Authority granted after the payment it approves is the pattern worth looking for.

4. 4

   Run the document through forensic analysis

   An inserted signatory line and a composited signature both survive visual review. TamperCheck returns a verdict within seconds with a risk score from 0 to 100 and findings tied to the exact region of the page that was changed, for $0.50 per document.

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