Our own car and our own edit, not a customer's claim.
What changed
- The damage. Copied along the trim until it ran roughly three times as long.
- What saved the file. The original's compression settings match the phone's camera. The copy's belong to editing software.
- The phone's own records. Present after the original image, gone from the copy.
What the report said: Authenticity A for the original, B for the copy.
That is enough to send a photo described as "straight from my phone" to an assessor. The report didn't outline the copied damage: its check for repeated areas found the same number of matches in both files, because door trim is full of repeating texture. More photos of the same damage, from other angles, are what expose a pasted scratch.
Go deeper
- How a claims team can use this: How to check insurance claim photos for fraud
- Why it works: How to tell if a photo has been edited, by Kenneth Springer
- Try it on your own photo
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