What The Fraud?
Episodes
iGaming Fraud Insights – ICE Barcelona Part 2
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Fraud in iGaming is shaping how operators grow, how regulators respond, and where investors place bets. Recorded live at ICE Barcelona in partnership ...
iGaming Fraud Insights – ICE Barcelona Part 1
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Unlicensed operators and AI-enabled fraud are scaling faster than most safeguards. Regulators, operators, and tech providers are being forced to rethi...
An Ex-Fraudster's Guide to Staying Safe
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"We can't possibly think of victims as being stupid." We often think of fraud victims as gullible or careless. But what if the real story is about rut...
Inside Sumsub's 2025 Identity Fraud Report
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Last year, only one in 10 fraud attempts were sophisticated enough to fool modern verification systems. This year, that number's nearly tripled. Amat...
APAC Fraud Insights: Singapore WTF? Summit - Part 2
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The fraudsters have already figured out what most financial institutions haven't yet: silos don't work. While your fraud team, cyber team and complian...
APAC Fraud Insights: Singapore WTF? Summit - Part 1
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The financial crime battlefield is shifting. What used to be separate fights against fraud and money laundering has merged into one coordinated attack...
Glovo's Fraud Playbook: From Free Lunches to Money Laundering
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Fraud is a lot more popular today than it was 10 years ago simply because today you can advertise fraud on TikTok, Snapchat, whatever platform, and y...
When Growth Meets Guardrails at Money20/20 Part 2
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fraud got faster. Your strategy has to be smarter. So what do leaders who rethink risk do to stay ahead?For part two of this special episode of What t...
Fast Payments, Hard Trust: AI and Fraud at Money20/20 Part 1
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fast payments raise hard trust questions. Live from Money20/20 USA in Las Vegas, we sat down with leaders reshaping fraud, AML, and compliance, turnin...
Inside Coinbase: Hunting Crypto Scammers
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“When I get in my car every day to go somewhere, I put my seatbelt on… Same thing with being online. What we need people to do is before they turn...
The Wise Approach to Fraud Prevention
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Fraudsters are preying on human emotion… and it clearly works.”Scams are becoming more personal, more emotional, and more sophisticated. In thi...
Agentic AI: Redefining Fraud Defence
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The main thing that agentic AI is going to be good at is pulling together data from multiple sources… metadata, images, device intelligence, and re...
Fraud, Digital Identity, Trust. Where do we go from here?
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Trust may sound soft, but in practice it’s the hardest currency there is… and in a world of AI, bots, and fraud, trust can make or break a plat...
Season 4 of What The Fraud?... Coming Soon
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Season 4 of What The Fraud is coming this month.As AI gets more complex, and cyber-criminals keep finding new ways to exploit it, these conversations ...
Fraud on wheels: Fighting the Growing Threat of Mobility fraud
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“You don't need to hack an Uber, you just need €200 and a Telegram account, and you can just buy the whole new profile.”The cars we drive and re...
The Business of Trust: Making security your competitive edge
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“In the tech space, in the platform space, there are a ton of other disruptive brands out there. So if you're not keeping your customers safe, if yo...
Keeping Payments Safe at Scale – Money20/20 Special Part 2
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In our second episode of What the Fraud?, recorded live at Money20/20 Europe in Amsterdam, we dive into how leading fintech voices are tackling the gr...
Bank Leaders on AI, Fraud & Trust – Money 20/20 Special Part 1
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of What the Fraud?, recorded at Money20/20 Europe in Amsterdam, we sit down with five senior leaders shaping the future of mod...
Pig Butchering: Inside the Billion-Dollar Scam Factories
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Imagine a campus with 35 buildings, but they are all for the purpose of scamming. It was a walled in, locked down facility where hundreds, thousand...
Insider Fraud: The Enemy Within
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“99% of employees are good employees - it’s the 1% that hurts” When we talk about the risk of fraud to a business, it doesn’t always come...
Fraud Risks in Real-Time Payments
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“I think from a prevention perspective, a little friction at the beginning is not necessarily a bad thing.” Real-time payments have become th...
$20 to Millions: Fraud’s True Cost
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“If cybercrime were a country today, it would have the third largest economy on the planet.” Fraud is no longer just a crime - it has become ...
ID Future: Reusable, Secure, Real?
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Governments worldwide are recognizing that paper-based identification just doesn't cut it for a digital-first economy.” Nations across the w...
Crypto Fraud 2025: How to Stay a Step Ahead
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“You’ve got organized hacks, and it's getting harder and harder to know what you're clicking on, if that's real or not.”Crypto is at a tipping p...
2025 Fraud Trends: How Businesses and Consumers Can Fight Back
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Your intuition is designed to make you comfortable, not necessarily correct.” In this season finale of What The Fraud?, we’re lookin...
Fraud Fuelling Digital Inequality
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Why are we trying to change the 3% of people who stammer in the UK? Why aren’t we educating the 97% of people who don’t?” Fraud isn’t vi...
Fraud in the Digital Age: Who’s Responsible?
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"We don’t treat fraud as importantly as money laundering.” Who should be responsible for preventing and addressing fraud in the d...
Identity Fraud 2024: Key Stats & Insights
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“For an expense of about $1,000 per month, the damage that a fraudster can cause to businesses is upwards of $2.5 million.” In this spec...
Uncovering the Latest Fraud Tactics in iGaming
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“The AI model thinks that the user is going to commit fraud at one point. So, it’s mitigating fraud before it even happens, which sounds quite cra...
Combating APP Fraud in Fintech
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"You ultimately become a victim of your own success because you’re doing really well as a business but scrambling around trying to make sure your co...
Crypto Fraud: Protecting Yourself in 2024 and Beyond
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“For those genuine bodies that are out there—work with us and try to get rid of your fear because we’ve got the same fears and we’re trying to...
Should Fraud Prevention Be Part of a Cybersecurity Strategy?
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“I let them know... You messed with the wrong parent.” Welcome back to What The Fraud? In the first episode of series two, Thomas Taraniuk&nb...
Psychology of a Fraudster
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Many people barter their souls for the allure of booze, babes, and bucks!”In this final episode of What The Fraud? Tom and fraud expert Sophia Ca...
Crypto Fraud
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“The fact that we have seen organized crime move much more into this space... It's not just your individual doing something bad. This is big busines...
Ecommerce Fraud
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“99% of your customers are legitimate… don't put too much friction in place for them just because you're trying to stop that 1%.” In episod...
Romance Fraud: How to spot it whilst online dating
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“In person, we have our ideas of who we can trust… online, anyone can be anyone!”In this episode of What The Fraud?, host Thomas Taraniuk is joi...
Fintech Fraud: How It Happens, and How To Fight It
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“So I think that's why you, as an organization, should also be regularly testing your controls... pretend to be a fraudster and see what your vulner...
Fraud in Gambling
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“They will do whatever suits them to get from A to B, and they don’t care who it hurts.” In Episode 3 of What The Fraud?, host Thomas Taran...
Are You Ready For AI-generated fraud?
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“It’s not a coincidence, that the World Economic Forum described AI-generated disinformation as THE biggest threat for the global economy.”In Ep...
2024 Predictions with Peter ‘The Fraud Guy’ Taylor
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Which little piggy are you? The piggy that lives in the straw house, in the wooden house, or are you going to build your organisation up so it’s ...
Introducing... What The Fraud?
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Thomas Taraniuk in hosting leading minds from the world of AI, fintech, crypto, iGaming, and more. This podcast dives deep into the most pressing...