CEO impersonation fraud
The instruction arrives on a convincing call; the loss executes as a legitimate payment. Verify the executive on the call, and the human behind the payment, before it commits.
Verify the action the instruction produces
CEO fraud does not defeat approval chains — it borrows them. An impersonated executive gives the instruction, and every subsequent step is performed by genuinely authorized people doing what they believe was asked. By the time anything looks wrong, the transfer is out.
The durable checkpoint is the action itself. When the instructed payment or detail change is raised, Presence verifies the approver is really participating — live, on a trusted device — and binds that approval to this amount and this beneficiary. An instruction extracted on a call cannot execute without it.
Where the call itself is the exposure — a video meeting with the 'CFO' — meeting connectors verify who is actually present before the conversation is trusted.
Check it yourself
The artifacts behind this page
- A finance worker paid out $25 million after a call where every colleague was synthetic.Why approval chains missed it →
- The demo pauses a $250K treasury wire for exactly this check.Run the $250K wire demo →
- Action binding stops an approval being reused./how-it-works/action-binding →
What this page does not claim
Limits
- Presence does not score call recordings as real or fake after the fact. The control verifies the people — the participant on the call, the approver at execution — before the action commits.