Who this is for
Most businesses meet the same few risks: an email that changes where a payment goes, a message from “the boss”, a document sent with more inside it than anyone meant, staff pasting customer details into an artificial intelligence chatbot, and a copy of the business set up to take its customers’ money. A team of one meets them as often as a team of fifty.
The risks you meet most, and the check for each.
An email that changes where you pay a supplier
An invoice arrives from a familiar supplier with new bank details, or a message asks for an urgent transfer. Confirm any change of bank details by phone, on a number you already have, before paying.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime Complaint Center counted 24,768 complaints of business email compromise, the crime of faking or taking over a business email to redirect payments, in 2025, with reported losses of about US$3.05 billion.
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internet Crime Complaint Center, 2025 Internet Crime Report
The check: one rule for any request for money and Before You Pay.
A “boss” who needs gift cards
A message that appears to come from a manager who cannot talk right now asks a member of staff to buy gift cards for clients and send the codes. It is a well-known impersonation scam.
The check: Gift card request check.
Customer details pasted into artificial intelligence
Staff use ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot or another assistant to answer a complaint or draft a letter, and paste the customer’s name, order number and phone number with it. Everything pasted goes to the company that runs the assistant. Since 27 July 2026, Article 4 of the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act, as changed by Regulation (European Union) 2026/1744, asks organisations that use artificial intelligence to take measures to support their staff’s understanding of it, and it reaches organisations outside the European Union whose use of artificial intelligence affects people there.
In a March 2026 survey, 52% of knowledge workers said they used artificial intelligence tools their employer had not approved, while 90% of executives said they were confident they could see which tools staff used. The survey of 492 knowledge workers and 292 executives in seven countries was carried out by Apprize360 and commissioned by Okta, a company that sells identity security.
The check: Hide Names from artificial intelligence and the free staff artificial intelligence card.
Documents that leave with more inside them
A quote, a contract or a report goes out with tracked changes, comments, hidden spreadsheet sheets, the author’s name, or words still readable under a black box.
The check: Release Check, free for one file at a time.
Fake technical support
A pop-up, a call or a web page says a computer is infected or an account is locked, and asks staff to call a number, install a program or paste a command.
Technical and customer support fraud rose to 47,794 complaints and US$2.13 billion lost in the United States in 2025 (Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internet Crime Complaint Center, 2025 report).
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internet Crime Complaint Center, 2025 Internet Crime Report
The check: Before You Paste a Command.
A copy of your shop or your accounts
Copycat shops reuse product photos and lookalike web addresses. Publish one page with your real web address, the ways you accept payment and your official social media accounts, and tell customers what you will never ask for.
Online retail account takeovers rose 84% in the United Kingdom from January to June 2026 (Cifas, the United Kingdom fraud prevention service, August 2026).
Source: Cifas, the United Kingdom fraud prevention service, Fraudscape 2026 six-month update, August 2026
The check: Shop check shows the signs your customers can look for.
The free tools that fit.
Every one is free, runs on your own phone or computer, and keeps working with the internet off once the page has loaded.
- AI Use Rules for Your TeamA one-page policy: what staff may paste into an artificial intelligence tool, what never, and who to ask.
- Security Check RemindersA calendar file that brings your security habits list back every three months.
- Where to Report a ScamYour country and what happened, with the first steps and the official places to report.
- Hide Log DetailsHide staff names, machine names and addresses in a log before you send it for help.
- Question for Your HostA message to your web host asking for the update, in writing, after a website flaw.
- Domain Email CheckSee whether public records let someone send invoices as your business.
- Before You PaySix questions about a page, message or trial before your card goes in.
- Gift card request checkPaste a message asking for gift cards and see each sign explained.
- Hide Names from artificial intelligenceSwap names and numbers for labels before any chatbot sees them.
- What Not to Paste into artificial intelligenceSee the private details still inside a text or document.
- Release CheckFind words under black boxes, tracked changes and hidden sheets before a file goes out.
- Redaction StudioBlack out a PDF (Portable Document Format) file so the words underneath are really gone.
- Before You Paste a CommandCheck a “verify you are human” or “fix this error” instruction first.
- Shop checkPaste a shop’s web address and see the signs of a copy.
- Subscription CheckFind every software and app subscription on a statement, see the yearly total and spot the ones that overlap.
- Can I Afford This?See what a business loan, a credit card or buy now pay later really costs.
Guides to read next.
- One rule for any request for money
- Check first at work
- What staff paste into artificial intelligence
- Hidden instructions in web pages and emails
- A security flaw in websites: what website owners should do
- How to redact a PDF (Portable Document Format) file for free
- Site Control: decide which artificial intelligence companies may read your website (free)
Check it yourself
Turn the internet off, then use any tool.
Every tool runs on your own phone or computer, and each page tells your browser it may not connect anywhere else. Your information technology team can check that with the browser’s own network panel, and we will send them what they need. You can use every tool without filling in a form.
What the tools cannot do.
- These tools do not make a business compliant with privacy law. They make specific things safer. Nobody honest will promise that a download can do more.
- The file that tells artificial intelligence companies to stay away is a request. Well-behaved companies follow it; others ignore it, and no file can stop them.
- The money tools give estimates, not advice. Lenders and tax offices have the final figures.
The pack that fits
Artificial Intelligence Tools for Work. From $39, one payment.
Artificial Intelligence Tools for Work
From $39
One payment · $39 for one person, or $119 for a team of up to ten in one organisation
An artificial intelligence use policy in United Kingdom, European Union and United States versions, staff training with a quiz and a training record, Release Check (full version), Redaction Studio and 21 more tools arranged by team. Twelve months of updates and a fourteen-day refund.
See Artificial Intelligence Tools for WorkRelease Check
$29
One payment · one person
The exact location of every problem in a document, with the words found, whole folders checked at once, a dated release record and Redaction Studio with no page limit. Twelve months of updates and a fourteen-day refund.
See Release CheckPrices are in United States dollars, paid once, with no subscription. Gumroad, the shop that handles payment, shows the total, including any tax, before you pay. Only need to check documents? Release Check on its own is $29 for one person. Every purchase can be refunded in full within fourteen days.
Sources and dates.
Reported losses count only what people reported, so real harm is larger.
- Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internet Crime Complaint Center, 2025 Internet Crime Report: https://www.ic3.gov/AnnualReport/Reports/2025_IC3Report.pdf
- The Register, on a survey by Apprize360 commissioned by Okta, a company that sells identity security, 27 May 2026: https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/27/bosses-blinded-by-confidence-about-shadow-ai-use-by-workers/5247275
- Cifas, the United Kingdom fraud prevention service, Fraudscape 2026 six-month update, August 2026: https://www.cifas.org.uk/newsroom/fraudscape-2026-6-month-update
- Cuatrecasas, a law firm, summary of Regulation (European Union) 2026/1744, checked against the official text on EUR-Lex on 8 October 2026: https://www.cuatrecasas.com/en/spain/intellectual-property/art/digital-omnibus-ai-has-been-published