Focused guide · fraud
Spotting fakes stopped working. Verifying is what works now.
Three attacks, one habit that takes ten seconds, and a code word you agree with the people you would drop everything for. It works no matter how good the fake is.
- The three attacks — voice, video and text, and the shape they share
- One verification habit — ten seconds, and it does not depend on you spotting anything
- A code word and a rule — agreed with the people you would drop everything for
- 24 pages — PDF, instant download, no login
Written by someone who worked on fraud prevention at JPMorgan Chase and spoke to thousands of small business owners about how it reaches people.
What it is for
The call you return, and everyone is fine.
It is for the evening a voice that sounds exactly like your daughter calls in tears asking for money, and you say you will call her straight back, and you do, and everyone is fine.
It is for the Tuesday a message from your boss asks for an urgent transfer and you take ten minutes, because no fraud survives ten minutes.
What is in it
Three attacks, one habit, one conversation.
For twenty years the advice was to watch for bad spelling, strange links and odd phrasing. Those tells are gone. Every message is fluent now, in any language and any tone. A few seconds of audio is enough to clone a voice, and a complete, professional-looking website takes minutes to build.
Voice
What cloning can and cannot do, where the audio comes from, and why the grandparent call works on people who consider themselves hard to fool.
Video
Live video used to be proof and is not any more. What still holds up and what does not.
Text
The message from your boss, your bank, your builder. Fluent, correctly formatted, and often referencing something real.
The habit
One verification move that takes ten seconds and does not require you to detect anything. It is the whole defense and it fits on a line.
The family conversation
A code word and a rule, agreed in advance with the people most likely to be impersonated to you, and the people you would be impersonated to.
The sentence it is built on
Never act on an urgent request until you have verified it on a channel the other person did not choose.
Hang up and call back on the number you already have. Close the message and open the app yourself. Walk down the hall.
The reason this works when detection does not is that it costs the fake everything and costs you ten seconds. A real request survives a call back. Nothing else does.
Honestly
Who this is for, and who it is not.
This is for you if
- You have an older parent, or you are one, and the calls have started.
- You handle money at work and an urgent request would reach you.
- You have noticed the advice you grew up with no longer matches what arrives.
- You want something you can teach your family in one sitting.
This is not for you if
- Something has already happened. Read the guide for the first hour instead, tonight.
- You want the full protection month. Digital Safety is $49 and covers the configuration as well as the habit.
If you want more than this
Where this sits.
This guide is one habit, learned quickly. If you want the whole protective layer set up behind it, that is Month Two.
Digital Safety — Month Two $49
Four weeks of configuring, recovery and monitoring, so a convincing fake has less to reach even if it works.
What to Do If You’ve Been Hacked, Scammed or Compromised $19
The other half of this: what to do in the hour after something has already landed.
Before you buy
The questions people ask.
Is this going to be out of date in a year?
The examples will move. The habit will not, because it does not depend on what the fake looks like. That is why the book is built around verification rather than detection.
Will this work for my parents?
It is written to be handed over. The code word and the rule are the two parts that matter most for an older relative, and both can be agreed in one phone call.
Is 24 pages enough?
For this, yes. The defense is genuinely short. We would rather sell you something you finish in an evening and use for years than something impressive you do not read.
Do I need an account to open it?
No. It downloads the moment you pay, and it is yours on your own computer. There is no account to make and no site to log back into.
Can I get a refund?
Yes. Read it, try it, and if it is not what you wanted, write to us within seven days and we will refund you.
Ten seconds, every time.
Three attacks, one habit, and a conversation with the people you would drop everything for. 24 pages, one payment of $19.
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