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# Understanding AML Results

> Whenever a request for an AML check is made, either as part of an entity profile recipe or specifically through a **checkType** value of `pep` or `pep_media`, an AML Result Set that contains details of all matches would be returned.

See [Create and Verify Entity](/docs/v1/api/kyc-api-endpoints/reference/entity/create-check-entity) for more on how to call this.

The result set will contain an array of “people” that match the search criteria that’s provided.

## How a match is made

When searching for possible AML matches, the service will take into account:

* Full name (required).

* Date of birth (highly recommended) or year of birth (if DoB not available).

* Addresses (highly recommended).

  * **Note:** if there’s no full address, add one (or more) with just a `country` attribute set

* ID documents (helpful).

We’ll apply the configured filter rules and return any matches.

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  ##### Name Matching

  Names will be matched not only against the various PEP/Sanctions/etc lists but also known aliases too. So if there’s a match with a very different name, chances are it’s been picked up as a known alias for your search criteria.
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  ##### Country matching

  We’ll scan the entity supplied for any countries based on addresses and ID documents. That list of countries will then be applied to the results and non-matching countries will be filtered out.

  However, not all records have a country mapped to them, so if other parameters such as name and DoB match, then those too will be returned.
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