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Bonus and promo abuse accounts for 23% of reported betting and gaming fraud losses. Add the 18% attributed to loyalty program abuse and the combined figure reaches 41% — the single largest fraud category in the sector. Most operators carrying the heaviest losse...

Reviewing transactions has always required human judgment, but as payment volumes scale and fraud patterns grow more sophisticated, manual processes alone cannot keep pace. A fraud analyst working a queue cannot simultaneously track behavioral drift across thousands of accounts, correlate signals from onboarding through payout or act on a velocity spike before the window clos...

A fraud leader at a Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) company spent two years building a program around a well-understood risk profile: synthetic identities at onboarding and installment abuse downstream. The team settled and the metrics looked clean.

Then the product team shipped a spending wallet and cross-border payouts. The fraud stack and the coverage map stayed the s...

Remote hiring fraud is no longer an edge case. As hiring workflows moved online, the platforms and processes enabling them became the attack surface, and the fraud patterns that followed are distinct from anything document checks were designed to catch.

Key takeaways

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is the largest single-event betting window the industry has ever faced. Thirty-nine days, 104 matches, three host countries, multiple overlapping time zones — and an industry whose fraud defenses are still organized around the wrong threat.

The tournament window is open. Operators who spent the past months hardening their front door are about...