Beacon Financial Crime Advisors LLC
Fraud Prevention Playbooks
Two focused field guides for the two categories of fraud most likely to reach you or someone you love.
Written by Stewart Martin, Certified Fraud Examiner
What this is
Two playbooks for two different fraud fights.
Each of these guides is a focused playbook Stewart Martin has spent two decades assembling inside bank fraud units. One goes deep on elder financial exploitation and the family-side defenses that stop it. The other goes deep on Business Email Compromise, the wire fraud pattern that costs American small businesses billions every year.
Choose the one that matches your risk. Or take both.
Inside the playbooks
Everything you need to protect what matters.
Elder scam patterns
Walkthroughs of the ten most common scams targeting older Americans, each with signature features, real examples, and specific defenses.
Warning signs before it happens
The behavioral, financial, and environmental cues that appear weeks before an incident on either the family side or the business side.
Family conversation scripts
Exact language for the conversations most families avoid: an aging parent’s finances, a suspected romance scam, a family password vault.
The 12-step BEC protocol
The full 12-step checklist that stops Business Email Compromise, plus wire verification workflows, vendor onboarding rules, and the five-minute weekly audit.
Elder-care legal safeguards
POA setups, revocable trusts, bank-side protections, and the safeguards adult children can put in place without triggering shame or defensiveness.
Recovery playbook
The first-72-hours checklist after an incident, for both the family fraud playbook and the business incident-response playbook.
Prefer to focus on one topic
Two specialized deep-dives.
Two focused playbooks, one for each of the most costly categories of fraud. Pick the one that matches your risk, or take both.
For families · 41 pages · $25
The Legacy Protection Plan Protecting the People You Love
Everything you need to protect an aging parent from financial exploitation. The ten most common elder scams, the family conversation scripts, the legal tools, the bank-side protections most families do not know exist.
Best for: adult children of parents in their sixties, seventies, or eighties.
For businesses · 38 pages · $39
The Business Protection Plan Playbook
The 12-step protocol that stops Business Email Compromise, the wire fraud that costs American small businesses $2.9 billion a year. Vendor onboarding, wire verification, employee training, and the incident-response playbook.
Best for: small business owners, bookkeepers, real estate agents, church treasurers.
About the author
Stewart Martin, CFE
Certified Fraud Examiner · Founder, Beacon Financial Crime Advisors LLC
Stewart Martin spent more than a decade as a Senior Fraud Investigator inside regional and large U.S. banks, working the exact scam patterns most people only hear about after the money is already gone. Wire fraud, elder financial exploitation, identity theft, business email compromise, romance and investment scams: every fraud category in this document is one he has personally investigated, often dozens or hundreds of times.
He is credentialed as a Certified Fraud Examiner by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the international body that sets professional standards for anti-fraud work. He founded Beacon Financial Crime Advisors LLC to bring that same pattern recognition to families and small businesses who do not have a bank fraud unit standing between them and the next incident.
Every recommendation in the documents on this page is the same recommendation he would give a friend or a family member. There are no watered-down protocols, no vague generalities, no fear-mongering. Every checklist has been used in a real case, refined by outcome, and simplified so a family or a small business can put it into practice on a weekend.
Credentials
Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners member
10+ years Senior Fraud Investigator, regional and national U.S. banks
Charleston, South Carolina