# Big-News Week Rumour Check: 7 prompts for spotting synthetic market-moving claims

From the Novelty shelf at ReadSigil (https://readsigil.com/novelty.html)
Free. Available until Sunday 8 November 2026, 11:59 PM IST.

## What this is

The first week of November 2026 carries a burst of market-moving news,
including the US midterm elections on Tuesday 3 November. Weeks like this
are when fabricated claims travel fastest: a cloned executive voice, a
doctored screenshot of a "circular", a fake "breaking" post about a bank or
a fund. This pack gives communications, fraud, customer-service and
markets teams seven prompts to slow down, check, and respond calmly.

It is strictly non-partisan. It is about verifying claims, not about any
election outcome, party or candidate, and it is not about any particular
institution.

## Ground rules

1. Never paste real customer data, credentials or unpublished internal
   documents into a public AI tool. Use synthetic or redacted examples,
   or text that is already public.
2. An AI model cannot tell you whether a video or image is genuine. Use
   it to organise your checks, not to deliver a verdict.
3. The primary source wins: the regulator's own website, the company's
   own exchange filing or newsroom, a known official account.
4. Nothing here is legal, regulatory, security or investment advice.

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## Prompt 1. Pull the claim apart
"Here is a post that is circulating [paste public text]. List every
factual claim in it as a separate line. For each, say who would be the
primary source able to confirm or deny it, and where that source
publishes (website, exchange filing, official account)."

## Prompt 2. Spot the pressure
"Read this message [paste]. Identify every technique that pushes the
reader to act before checking: urgency, authority, fear of loss, secrecy,
a deadline, a link or number to call. Rate the overall pressure from
1 to 5 and explain in two lines."

## Prompt 3. Check a 'circular' or 'notice'
"Here is the text of a document presented as an official notice
[paste]. Compare its structure, tone and references with how genuine
notices from that kind of body are usually written. List anything that
looks unusual, and list the exact page on the issuer's own website where
I should look to confirm it. Say clearly that you cannot confirm it
yourself."

## Prompt 4. Voice and video triage questions
"A team member has received a voice note or video, apparently from a
senior executive, asking for an urgent action [describe the request, not
the person]. Write a five-question call-back checklist the team member
should complete through a known, separate channel before doing anything."

## Prompt 5. Timeline sanity check
"Here are the timestamps and accounts that first shared this claim
[paste public list]. Point out anything suspicious about the timing,
such as a claim appearing before the event it describes, or many new
accounts posting the same wording within minutes."

## Prompt 6. Draft a holding line for customers
"Draft three versions (SMS length, a short social post, a call-centre
script line) of a calm holding message telling customers we are aware of
a circulating claim about [synthetic example], that they should rely
only on our official channels, and that we will never ask for an OTP,
PIN or password. No speculation and no blame."

## Prompt 7. After-action note
"Using these synthetic notes from a rumour incident [paste], write a
one-page after-action summary: what spread, how fast, when we confirmed
it, what we said, and three changes to make before the next big-news
week."

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## Why this expires

These prompts are framed around one specific news-heavy week. After
Sunday 8 November 2026 the pack comes down from the shelf, though the
habit of checking the primary source does not expire.