For most of the last decade, iGaming fraud teams lived by a comforting fiction: verify a player once at sign-up, pass the regulator’s know-your-customer (KYC) box, and move on. Through 2026, that fiction collapsed. A 700% surge in deepfake attacks, a 4.5× jump in suspicious iGaming transactions in a single year, and the arrival of autonomous fraud agents turned the industry’s one-and-done onboarding check into a liability. The defining story of AI fraud detection in iGaming this year is not a bigger firewall – it is the death of point-in-time verification and its replacement by continuous, behavioural intelligence that never stops watching.
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