Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
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Fraud Management & Cybercrime
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Fraud Risk Management
Banks Must Prepare for the Coming Deluge
Global crime intelligence agency Interpol added to warnings about a coming torrent of artificial intelligence-enabled global fraud in an annual assessment assessing that victim losses reached $442 billion last year.
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Financial fraud is one of the top five global crime threats, alongside money laundering and drugs offenses, according to Interpol.
“Enabled by artificial intelligence, low-cost digital tools and increased global criminal collaboration, we are witnessing the industrialization of fraud,” said Interpol’s Secretary General Valdecy Urquiza while speaking at the UN Global Fraud Summit in March.
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Cyber fraud uses technology as the primary weapon. It is highly scalable and can be conducted from anywhere in the world.
- Phishing/Smishing/Vishing: Using deceptive emails (phishing), text messages (smishing), or phone calls (vishing) to trick victims into clicking malicious links or revealing sensitive data.
- Business Email Compromise (BEC): A high-value scam where a criminal impersonates a CEO or high-level executive via a “spoofed” email address to trick a staff member into making an urgent, unauthorized wire transfer.