Kredentic
Protecting businesses from impersonation fraud on Google — automated detection, evidence collection, and takedown workflows that close cases before customers get burned.
B2B SaaS that monitors Google Maps 24/7 for fake listings impersonating real businesses. Built for the Ghanaian market, where phone-swap scams on Maps are an active and growing problem.
The scam is straightforward: copy a real business name and address onto a Google Maps listing, swap in a fraudulent phone number, and wait for customers to call. Kredentic automates the monitoring side of that problem. A Python detection engine scans Maps listings across 22 Ghanaian districts and scores each result for fraud likelihood using three signals: phone number mismatches carry 70 points, name similarity via RapidFuzz fuzzy matching adds 20, and a missing verification badge adds 10. Anything above 80 opens an incident.
When a listing triggers, Playwright spins up a headless browser, navigates to the Maps page, and captures a full screenshot before anything can change. That screenshot goes to Supabase Storage and the URL gets sent to the business owner over WhatsApp via Twilio. The Next.js dashboard tracks every incident through a defined lifecycle from detection to takedown, with Supabase Realtime keeping the UI current without polling.