Agent-to-agent impersonation

Your finance agent receives instructions from what looks like your accountant’s agent to move savings into a new wallet. The other agent is a fake.

What it looks like

How it usually ends

Agent-to-agent impersonation. Your accountant's agent had been spoofed.

Red flags

• Agent credential not issued by the firm
• New escrow wallet
• Policy claim with no source

What to do

• Agents should verify the identity of the agents they deal with.
• Confirm unusual instructions with the human behind them.
• Never auto-approve transfers to new wallets.

This is a scenario from the 2036 world of Painted Sky: a plausible extension of fraud patterns that already exist, not a forecast.

Could you spot it in the moment?

In Painted Sky you’re born at random somewhere on Earth and live a whole life — and this scam is one of the fakes that can find you. Make the call yourself, then replay the same life with a lens that shows what was fake.

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