Dean Uata, Founding GTM at Sphinx

Dean Uata

Founding GTM

Dean is the Founding GTM at Sphinx, based in San Francisco. A Tongan-American Northwestern philosophy grad, he previously ran growth at Leland. Outside of work you'll find him running marathons or hunting the best cookies in the city.

Blog posts by this author

Document Fraud
How to Spot a Fake Bank Reference Letter

How to spot a fake bank reference letter: the relationship claim, the signatory, and the edit history. Letterhead is cheap to copy.

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How to Spot a Fake Operating Agreement

How to spot a fake operating agreement in KYB: edited member schedules, swapped signature pages, and ownership that does not match the file.

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How to Spot a Fake Certificate of Good Standing

Spot a fake certificate of good standing by checking the as-of date, file number, and post-download edits.

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How to Spot a Fake Voided Check

How to spot a fake voided check using file history, routing match, and account control. A VOID mark misses edited and generated files.

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Document Verification vs Document Fraud Detection: The Difference

Verification reads the page and matches the applicant. Fraud detection reads the file. What each misses, how to evaluate each, and when you need both.

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PDF Metadata Analysis: How to Check a Document for Tampering

PDF metadata analysis for fraud detection: Info dictionary, XMP, timestamps, producer strings, incremental updates, and what each can and cannot prove.

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How to Spot Fake Financial Statements in Business Lending

How to spot fake financial statements in SMB lending and KYB: inflated revenue, fake auditor letters, 4506-C and bank reconciliation, six file checks.

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How to Spot a Fake Certificate of Insurance (COI)

How to spot a fake certificate of insurance: why an ACORD 25 confers no rights, the tells that survive, carrier and NAIC lookups, and the six file checks.