Checked at every step.
Every party gets a 0–100 risk score with the evidence behind it, and is checked again each time money, cargo or a signature is about to move.
Product example
Sample leads
Harb0r Line Machinery
Mark Ellisonm.ellison@harb0rlinemachinery.com
High risk because the email domain imitates harborlinemachinery.com.
What this proved: harb0r has a zero where the domain already on your books has the letter o.
One character.
A different company.
Mark Ellison, Harb0r Line Machinery
harb0r
m.ellison@harb0rlinemachinery.com
harbor
harborlinemachinery.com
- Stop
Look-alike domains
Email domain imitates harborlinemachinery.com
- Flag
Domain age
Email domain registered 6 days ago
- Flag
Words in the message
Asks to change the delivery address
High risk 95
Deal held.
Before the goods move.
Fictional sample lead. Three of eight checks shown.
A pause where
it matters.
See what happens when bank details change or a high risk lead reaches the next step.
Kestrel Metals
Lena Fischeraccounts@kestrelmetals.com
High risk because a message asked to change bank details.
- StopBank change waiting on a callback
What this proved: The party stays High risk until someone logs a callback.
- FlagBank details change requested in a message
What this proved: The message asks you to pay a new account.
Callback open
Bank details change requested in a message
Use a number you found yourself, not one from the request.
Bank changes wait for a call
A new account in an email puts the party at High risk and opens a callback. Someone other than the person who entered the change has to call a number they found themselves. A one-person business waits 24 hours.
Fictional sample data. The checks inform the decision. Your team stays responsible for it.
Read how scoring worksThe score
- One record per partyEvery company and person keeps its score, its findings, its activity and its bank details in one place, whatever its role.
- Risk score with evidenceA score from 0 to 100 and a band: Low risk, Check or High risk. Every finding shows what that check proved.
- Domain and email checksDomain age, look-alike domains, free and disposable addresses, mail server and DMARC records, and an email that doesn’t match the website.
- Sanctions screeningOFAC’s SDN and consolidated lists, matched on names, aliases, emails, phones, websites and vessel IMO numbers.
- Scam patterns in the messageFees before a contract, commodity-offer jargon, credit on a first order, a new delivery address, urgency, chat-only contact and the air-only short-firm pattern.
- Hard stopsA sanctions match, a domain imitating one you deal with or an unconfirmed bank change makes a party High risk until a person clears it.
- AI advises, people decideAI reads each message and can add a light flag. It never clears a hard stop or approves an override, and every rule runs with AI off.
- Outcome captureMark each party won, lost, confirmed scam or confirmed legitimate, and the outcome stays on its record.
Harb0r Line Machinery
Mark Ellisonm.ellison@harb0rlinemachinery.com
High risk because the email domain imitates harborlinemachinery.com.
- StopEmail domain imitates harborlinemachinery.com
What this proved: harb0r has a zero where the domain already on your books has the letter o.
- FlagEmail domain registered 6 days ago
What this proved: The registry’s date for the domain. It can’t show who registered it.
- FlagAsks to change the delivery address
What this proved: The message asks for the goods to go somewhere new.
- FlagEmail domain differs from the website given
What this proved: They wrote from harb0rlinemachinery.com and gave harborlinemachinery.com as their website.
- FlagNo DMARC record on the email domain
What this proved: The domain doesn’t ask receiving servers to reject mail forged in its name.
- ClearNo match on name, email, phone or website
What this proved: None of the four is on OFAC’s lists. A front company with new details can still pass.
- ClearBusiness domain, not free or disposable mail
What this proved: Only that the address isn’t on the free-mail or disposable lists.
- ClearMail server found
What this proved: The domain can receive mail. It says nothing about who reads it.
At every step
- Re-checks on dealsEvery check runs again when a lead becomes a deal, when a deal is won, when credit is approved and when an email, phone or website changes.
- Re-checks at every actionOne engine checks every party again at quote acceptance, signing, booking, cargo release, pickup dispatch and any payment to new details.
- Gates with recorded overridesA High risk party can’t become a deal, be marked won or get credit. Owners and admins can override with a written reason, logged with their name and the time.
- Separation of dutiesThe person who enters a bank change can’t confirm it. In a one-person business the owner can, after 24 hours.
- Insider linksA party that shares a team member’s email or phone is flagged, and the override log shows who skipped a check.
- Exportable vetting recordEvery deal and load exports what was checked, when, by whom, and who overrode what.
Brightmoor Paper Mills
4 × 40′ HC, Savannah to RotterdamRe-checked at signing
- Agreement
- Ocean freight service agreement C-0187
- Signed
- Oct 6, 10:14 by Ellen Park
- Countersigned
- Oct 6, 11:02 by Dana Whitfield
- Approved version
- Locked
Rules from the signed terms
- Payments only to the account ending 4471On
- Invoice at departure, net 30On
- Incoterm CFR RotterdamOn
- Credit limit $40,000On
- Release needs the B/L, invoice, packing list and VGMOn
Bank details
- Known bank detailsEach party’s confirmed bank details stay on its record. A different account, typed in or found in a message, makes the party High risk.
- Callbacks on an independent numberThe callback records the number dialled, where it came from (the registry, the official website or your own records), the outcome and notes.
Kestrel Metals
Lena Fischeraccounts@kestrelmetals.com
Check because a message asked to change bank details.
- 2:14 PMRe-scored: Check 60
- 2:14 PMBank change denied. Details on file kept, account •••• 4821.
- 2:14 PMCallback logged by Marcus Bell: denied. Called +1 912 555 0148, a number already on file.
- 9:41 AMCallback opened: bank details change requested in a message
- 9:41 AMScored High risk 60
Beyond the lead
- Registry and license checksCompany registries, the FMC list of NVOCCs and forwarders, EORI and VAT numbers and carrier records, compared with what the party claims.
- Trade-history checkA claimed shipping volume is compared with US shipping records, so a big claim with no history stands out.
- More screening listsThe US Consolidated Screening List, UK sanctions and the DHS UFLPA list, with addresses matched too.
- Inbox fraud checksMail on every record is checked for look-alike senders, changed reply-to addresses and bank-change language, with reasons.
- Shared fraud networkIdentifiers a business confirms as fraud, such as a domain, phone, bank account or document, are flagged for every business, with a dispute path.
- Disputes with a named reviewerA flagged party can dispute a finding about itself, and a named person reviews it.
Checked here.
- A lead arrivesDomain age, look-alike domains, mail records, sanctions lists and scam patterns in the message, before anyone replies.
- A quote is acceptedThe party is scored again before you commit to a price.
- A contract is signedThe signer’s band shows during signing. High risk can’t sign without an override.
- Credit is approvedCredit for a High risk party needs an owner or admin and a written reason.
- Freight is bookedShipper, consignee and notify party are checked before the booking goes out.
- Cargo is released or picked upRelease waits for a checked request, and a pickup has to match the booked carrier, truck and seal.
- Money moves to new detailsA payment to a changed account waits for a callback on an independently sourced number.
What nobody else sells.
No tool a freight business buys today checks shippers, consignees, importers, agents and payees at the moment money, cargo or a signature moves. Carrier checks stop at carriers, screening stops at a list, and signing tools stop at the signature.
Compare the whole stackA few things
worth knowing.
Clear answers, including the limits.
Does a Low risk score mean a party is legitimate?
No. It means no check found anything heavy. A real company’s hijacked mailbox can pass every check, which is why a bank change still waits for a callback.
Can a flagged party dispute a finding?
Yes. A flagged party can dispute what Laneseal found about it, and a named person reviews the dispute. Your team sees the outcome on the record.
What happens when a data source is down?
That check reads Couldn’t run, and the score never drops because of it. The record is saved and the other checks still run.
One record. Every step checked.
Bring your leads, rates, shipments and team into Laneseal.