Fraudsters shop for the firm that checks least.
Hire fraud is not random. The person planning to take your car and disappear picks the operator who glances at a licence, takes cash, and hands over the keys on trust. Every check you add moves them on to somebody else's fleet.
Four ways firms get taken. One layer stops all four.
A real person's documents, a different person collecting the car. KeyProof matches the photo ID to a live selfie of the person actually booking, and at pickup you confirm the collector against that verified face. "Booking for a friend" stops at the kerb.
The licence card looks fine; the DVLA record behind it says revoked. A live DVLA check before every hire catches what a glance at plastic never will, and protects your insurance position at the same time.
The car comes back wrecked, or does not come back at all, and the renter stops answering. With a verified identity, a signed agreement and a deposit already held, you are not chasing a ghost. You are opening a case file.
"I never authorised that charge." A signed agreement bound to a verified identity, with timestamped condition photos at both ends, is exactly the evidence a card dispute asks you to produce, sitting in one record instead of scattered across a DM thread.
Prevention is posture. Evidence is the backstop.
No tool makes fraud impossible, and anyone promising that is selling you something. What verification does is change your posture: the serious checks happen before the keys move, the opportunists self-select out when they see them, and if someone still gets through, you hold the evidence that turns a loss into a claim. KeyProof is pre-launch, built for a founding cohort of UK hire firms, and the whole flow is shown honestly in the demo. How it fits your day: how it works.
Be the fleet
fraudsters skip.
Founding spots are open to a handful of UK hire firms: locked pricing for life, and a direct hand in shaping the product.