Homestore's executives inflated revenue in the dot-com boom and several were jailed
Homestore (Move Inc.) · Online real estate (listed)
The case in brief
Visible before detection
Checks that could have surfaced it, on hindsight
Ownership / related-party links
Would have linked vendors paid by Homestore to its ad buyers.
Can mislead when: Nominee directors and offshore layers hide links. Name matching throws up false positives, so every flag shows its evidence path.
End-use tracing of funds
Would have traced money around the triangle.
Can mislead when: Kubr sees only the company's own accounts. Once money reaches a third party's bank, Kubr can flag the payee but cannot see the next hop without that party's consent.
Third-party confirmation
Would have confirmed ad deals with customers.
Can mislead when: Counterparties can collude or ignore requests. A non-response is logged as a gap, never as a pass.
Where Kubr services would have helped
Valuation context
Offered in India- Peer multiples and the exit-multiple bridge would have shown how much of the story relied on valuation holding.
Borrower monitor
Offered in India- C3 Would have linked vendors paid by Homestore to its ad buyers.
- C6 Would have traced money around the triangle.
Proceeds tracer
Offered in India- C3 Would have linked vendors paid by Homestore to its ad buyers.
- C6 Would have traced money around the triangle.
Verified Snapshot
Offered in India- C3 Would have linked vendors paid by Homestore to its ad buyers.
Mapped from the checks each service runs. A hindsight reading of public records, not a promise that the failure would have been found.
Same pattern
A summary of public documents. It reports what the sources say. It is not Kubr's finding and not a statement of guilt.