Use case 03Loss and fraud in the gaps
Nobody is watching the gaps. Now someone is.
A median $104,000 per fraud case found after twelve months, usually by a tip; $274,000 per stolen load; and the brokerage margin that walks out through a fake carrier.
The blind spot. Continuous review across vendors, carriers, payroll, payments and telematics turns the detection method from someone noticed into the record noticed.
01 · The problem
Fraud is rarely invisible. It is spread out. The fake carrier, the changed bank details, the padded expense and the stolen load each leave a normal-looking entry in a different system. Nobody is paid to read those systems together, so the business finds out from a tip, a year later.
02 · In practice
A carrier with a week-old operating authority, an insurance certificate that does not match the policy, a contact email changed this morning and a high-value load tendered from a load board: four records, four systems, one fictitious pickup.
A bookkeeper changes a vendor’s bank details, approves her own expense claims and runs payroll for a contractor who stopped working months ago. Each system shows a valid entry. The pattern lives across payables, expenses and payroll.
03 · Where today’s tools stop
Carrier-vetting services score an operating authority. Email security scores a message. Payables controls check an invoice. Telematics shows a truck. None of them sees that the carrier onboarded yesterday, the contact email changed this morning, the load is high-value and the payment instructions were edited in the same week.
04 · What it costs today
median loss per occupational fraud case, running twelve months before detection; 43% are found by a tip.
average loss per cargo theft in 2025, in a year the total rose 60% to about $725 million.
of freight brokers lost more than $200,000 to fraud in six months.
05 · What Velenza does
Management review and proactive data monitoring, the two controls fraud examiners associate with roughly half the loss, become structural. The advisors read every record every day, and the detectors that watch the boardroom for collusion and correlated error read the vendors, carriers and employees the same way.
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06 · What it is worth
- Floor: one median case caught early. Examiners associate proactive data monitoring and management review with roughly half the median loss, so even a case that still happens costs about half of $104,000.
- Typical, logistics: one prevented fictitious pickup or double-brokered load, at the $274,000 average.
Estimates with the arithmetic shown, on the reference companies described in the use-case brief. Never a measured result; your figures come from your record.
07 · Beyond logistics and services
Any company that pays vendors, employs people and ships or receives goods: construction (subcontractor and lien fraud), healthcare practices (billing and vendor fraud), manufacturing (inventory shrink).
Audit on demand produces the evidence that controls ran. This case reads the record for what the controls missed.
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