Small Business AI Fraud & Impersonation Response System™
Build practical controls for AI-enabled phishing, payment-change fraud, executive and vendor impersonation, incident containment, evidence preservation, and recovery.
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Make verification the default when urgency, identity, and money collide.
The strongest control is not detecting whether content “looks AI-generated.” It is independently verifying high-risk requests before money, credentials, accounts, or public trust are put at risk.
Slow down high-risk requests.
Use independent callbacks, trusted contact paths, two-person approval, and known-channel verification for payment and identity changes.
Know what to do in the first minutes.
Freeze risky actions, preserve evidence, secure accounts and communication channels, assign incident roles, and control customer-facing messaging.
Turn incidents into stronger controls.
Document what happened, coordinate recovery, notify the right parties, retrain staff, and update payment, vendor, help-desk, and account-recovery procedures.
A small-business response system for AI-enabled fraud.
Harden payment changes
Create a five-minute rule, callback policy, invoice verification process, and high-risk approval controls.
Build response command
Use severity levels, incident roles, containment steps, evidence preservation, and communication protocols.
Train and recover
Prepare staff for executive, vendor, payroll, help-desk, voice, video, customer, and social impersonation scenarios.
Urgency is a signal to verify, not a reason to skip controls.
Voice, video, email, text, and social messages can all be imitated. Trust independent contact paths, pre-agreed approval rules, and verifiable evidence instead of the realism of the message.
Pause. Verify. Contain. Recover.
Start with the payment-change and high-risk request controls, train staff on independent verification, assign incident roles, and keep a recovery checklist ready before an incident occurs.
