Mortgage Fraud Detection at Origination: What an AI Agent Can Flag, What It Cannot Decide, and Where the SAR Obligation Starts
Most origination fraud is not a forged document, it is a set of facts that are each plausible and collectively wrong: an owner-occupancy claim that does not fit the file, an employer that only exists on paper, a gift that is really a loan. Where an AI agent reads the whole file for the pattern instead of each document in isolation, what FinCEN's mortgage AML rule and the Red Flags Rule actually require, and the line between a fraud flag and a fraud determination.