The Con
July 2024: a scammer deepfaked Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna's voice on a call about a secret, urgent deal. One executive asked a question only the real CEO could answer - and the caller hung up.
20 minutes. Three lures in your inbox, a lure-spotting lab, and 12 verification calls. A safety score that follows you.
Before you start
- One real incident, played as decisions - no slides, no lectures.
- About 20 minutes, one sitting - leave early and you start over.
- You make timed choices; your score changes with your decisions.
- You get a safety score with feedback on every decision - never a leaderboard, never your name.
- Your firm sees completion evidence - never your answers. Teammates never see your score.
- Finish and you get a certificate with a unique ID anyone can verify.
This module is included with team access.
Module 1 stays free. Modules 2-14 open with team access.
See team accessThe voice was perfect. The question was better.
A Ferrari executive got messages and then a call from 'CEO Benedetto Vigna' - right voice, right southern Italian accent, right mannerisms. The deal was secret, urgent, and needed money moved. Then the executive asked about a book Vigna had just recommended. The caller hung up.
The FBI's IC3 logs $2.9B in business-email-compromise losses in a year, and AI-enabled fraud is the fastest-growing slice - $893M and climbing. The con is ancient; AI just made the voice, the face, and the flawless grammar free.
The signature never changes: urgency, secrecy, and a reason you can't verify. Your defense is older than AI: verify on a channel you already trust.
Monday, 9:14 AM. Three messages in. One of them is very good.
You are Alex, finance lead at a 40-person firm. Wires move on your say-so.
YOUR SCREEN
Before lunch: a wire request from the CEO, a vendor with new bank details, and a colleague's thread that suddenly reads a little too well.
The CEO emails: wire EUR 480,000 today. 'In meetings - don't call, just get it done.'
A voicemail arrives in your vendor's finance manager's exact voice: bank details have changed.
A colleague's email thread suddenly turns flawless - and asks for the W-9 batch.
Flag every lure signal.
Select every segment that is a lure signal - urgency, secrecy, blocked verification, changed payment rails, lookalike sender. Then check your work.
Call it before you click it.
SAFETY
101
This certifies that
has completed Module 7 - The Con: verify before you trust on with a safety score of /100 in of active time.
Safety score - skepticism: how your decisions held up, graded 0-100.
Objective: Defeat AI-powered social engineering with verification discipline.
Seat time ~10-25 minutes. Verify this certificate at aisafety101.com/verify.
Evidence on record: decision history, lab accuracy, sprint calls, knowledge check. This certificate ID verifies in your firm's admin report. A team certificate issues when every enrolled employee completes all 14 modules.
Your one rule to keep: urgency + secrecy + a blocked callback = stop. Verify on a number you already had.
Next: The Agent. You just learned how AI supercharges a con. Next: what happens when the AI does not just talk - it acts on your behalf.