Impersonation and threats to people
Find who is behind an impersonation or a threat.
Azonic Lighthouse warns you when fake profiles, sites and threats appear. Azonic Vantage links them to the people and networks behind them.
Lighthouse watching for impersonation of your executives and brand. Five fakes found on social media and the open web are grouped by who runs them: Operator A shares one phone number and photo across two fake executive profiles and a lookalike sign-in site; Operator B shares an email address across a fake profile and a fake careers site. Three fakes are removed, one takedown is requested and one request waits for the team's approval.
Removing a fake profile doesn’t stop the person behind it.
Fake executive profiles, lookalike domains and staff impersonated to customers are cheap to set up and quick to replace. Threats arrive from accounts that disappear.
Teams remove one profile at a time without learning who runs them, and the next one appears.
US$3.5bn
Lost to impostor scams reported to the FTC in the US in 2025
Nearly US$1 billion went to scammers posing as businesses, with bank impersonators causing the highest losses.
C$28.3m
Lost to scammers posing as fraud investigators, reported to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre in 2025
From 2,167 reports, the eighth most reported fraud type in 2025.
A$97.6m
Lost to phishing scams reported in Australia in 2025
Up 15.5% on 2024. Scamwatch defines phishing as scammers impersonating trusted people or organisations, such as banks.
£55.5m
Lost to scammers posing as police or bank staff in the UK in 2025
Across 6,016 cases. A further £36.9m was lost to scammers posing as other organisations.
25%
Of online fraud victims in the EU were tricked by someone posing as family
Others were tricked by someone posing as a business or work contact (24%) or a bank (22%). A survey of 26,453 people.
Fakes that keep returning, linked to the same people.
Staff receive messages from a profile posing as the chief executive, and customers report a lookalike website. Three similar profiles were removed earlier and replaced. Vantage links all five through a payment account, a registrant email and a phone number, so your team can take every fake down at once.
Take down the fakes, and identify the people making them.
Vantage
Links the fakes to the people running them.
A cited report for police drafted by Vantage, every line citing its sources, waiting for an investigator to approve it.
Links the fakes together
Links profiles, domains, phone numbers and payment details across reports, to show which ones the same people run.
Traces a threat
Follows the account that made a threat to the other accounts, aliases and earlier posts linked to it.
Builds the record
Drafts a cited report for police, legal or the platform. Your team approves every report before it leaves.
Lighthouse
Know when someone is using your name.
Lighthouse alerts for the topic Your executives and brand: New profile using your chief executive’s name; Lookalike domain registered for your brand.
Fake profiles and sites
Flags profiles, adverts and lookalike domains that use your executives’ names, your staff or your brand.
Threats to your people
Flags posts that threaten your people, sites or events, with where and when they appeared.
Evidence for a takedown
Each alert carries what a platform or registrar needs to remove it.
Who this is for.
- PoliceGovernmentInvestigate threats of violence against people, and the networks behind impersonation scams.
- Corporate securityEnterpriseFind fake profiles, lookalike domains and threats aimed at your executives and staff, and who is behind them.
- Banks and financial servicesEnterpriseFind scams that impersonate your bank or your staff, and trace the numbers and accounts behind them.
- TelecommunicationsEnterpriseFind campaigns that impersonate your brand or staff, and trace the numbers they call from.
- Social media and gaming platformsEnterpriseFind the people behind impersonation and harassment on your service.
Common questions.
Does this replace our brand or executive protection services?
What happens when a threat looks serious?
Does Lighthouse monitor our employees?
Who decides what happens next?
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