Motivated to beat the bad people behind financial scams, four individuals have come together to form the scam-prevention agency: AVIEL Technologies.
Scams devastate lives. Technology shifts and global trends are making them ever more prevalent.
Over the past 6 months, AVIEL has been identifying weaknesses in the scammers’ armour through our unique platform - ‘EVIE’.
Fusing artificial and human intelligence to scour online locations where financial grooming occurs, EVIE unearths and returns the key identifiers which underpin scams.
With our precision intelligence, banks and other Payment Service Providers can have unprecedented ability to isolate scam payments and block them.
Protecting real people, in real time, against a very real threat.
THE 4 phases of an investment scam
1. outreach
Scammer casts the net wide with large scale advertising or unsolicited messages
2. Introduction
Scammer differentiates genuine ‘marks’ from non-target personas by starting a dialogue on a messaging app.
3. Transaction
Scammer builds trust by simulating small monetary wins for the victim and allowing small withdrawals
4. Maximisation
Scammer continues ‘financial grooming’ and ensures all of the victims funds are deposited before disappearing with the victim’s money.
aviel products
scout
for banks and crypto exchanges
A real-time API feed of mule accounts being used to take scam payments which banks can action to reduce financial losses to APP fraud.
Aviel Scout
samaritan
for government
An AI-powered emergency education service to deter users from losing their funds which delivers government’s mandate to reduce harms of APP fraud.
Aviel samaritan
Media periscope
for regulators
A software toolset that helps regulators to turn the avalanche of public social media data into policy-guiding enforcement insight.
Aviel samaritan
HEROES, ASSEMBLE! THE AVIEL Team
Joe
CEO & FOUNDER
Joe is a software engineer who has spent the last decade hunting botnets. That journey started when he joined a tiny startup later acquired by one of the world's largest technology companies. While there, Joe contributed to the detection and takedown of the largest ad fraud operation ever discovered.
Dr Anton
COMMERCIAL Lead
Anton is a digital technology entrepreneur focused on combating online disinformation. He holds a PhD in Economics and regularly lectures students on digital assets.
John
COO & INVESTIGATIVE LEAD
With extensive experience crafting top-tier ad campaigns for global brands, John understands deeply what makes people tick. He applies this expertise when investigating scammers and talking to victims to deter them from moving money to scam operations.
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