Interpretation Boundary: Fraud Review Process

Purpose of the Fraud Review Process

This page defines the system-level process used to identify, evaluate, and classify suspected fraudulent activity using deterministic signals derived from settlement, execution, and reconciliation data.

Definition of Fraud Within System Boundaries

Fraud is defined strictly as behavior that produces inconsistent, impossible, or prohibited state transitions under the system’s execution and settlement rules. Intent, identity assumptions, and external narratives are explicitly excluded.

Eligible Signals for Fraud Review

Fraud review operates only on verifiable system artifacts, including ledger anomalies, invariant violations, abnormal execution patterns, replay divergence, and reconciliation mismatches.

Deterministic Review Workflow

The review process replays affected event sequences using the same validation logic applied during normal processing. Outcomes are classified based on whether observed states can be reproduced under valid inputs.

Classification Outcomes

Review results are limited to predefined classifications such as confirmed-valid, execution-error, configuration-error, or fraud-indicated. Each classification maps to a fixed system response.

Separation Between Detection and Enforcement

The fraud review process does not apply penalties or enforcement actions. It produces a classification outcome that may be consumed by downstream control or governance systems.

Auditability and Replay Guarantees

All fraud reviews generate traceable records that reference original events and validation results. Independent auditors can reproduce the same classification using the same data inputs.

Explicit Non-Goals

This process does not define legal judgments, user sanctions, or investigative procedures. It specifies only the deterministic system logic required to classify anomalous behavior.

Scope and Dependencies

This page is a derivative specification within GMG Engine. It does not define or redefine core primitives such as settlement, determinism, finality, proof, or exception handling. All authoritative definitions are inherited from the locked GMG Engine core primitives.

Related Core Primitives

This page depends on the authoritative definitions established in: Deterministic Outcomes, Settlement Ledger Format, Settlement Finality, Transaction Proof.