What’s up fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward!

This episode is another one that is unplugged, on the road, and recorded live at IAFCI International in Nashville. I am spending more time talking with the people who fight fraud from every angle. This time we talked about consumer fraud, identity theft, romance scams, account takeover on someone’s personal banking app, and the stuff that leads to the nightly news. But businesses get defrauded too, and when they do, it doesn’t just hit a balance sheet. It hits jobs, it hits communities, yet it barely hits the headlines.

These conversations will hit on a lot, and we will cover one topic that maybe doesn’t get nearly the attention it deserves. B2B fraud. From business identity verification, synthetic business entities, the regulatory gaps opening up around beneficial ownership, and where AI is genuinely helping instead of just adding to the noise.

Sit down, and let’s get into it with the fraud fighters sounding off on B2B fraud, synthetic entities, and everything AI is changing about the fight ahead.

• Why B2B fraud gets a fraction of the attention consumer fraud does, even though the downstream impact on employees and communities can be just as severe.
• How synthetic business entities and beneficial ownership fraud are becoming easier to pull off, and why recent FinCEN ownership rule changes are widening that gap.
• A real example of business email compromise reaching its highest recorded volume in FinCEN's history, and how compromised business inbox markets let criminals study a company's own email patterns before striking.
• What abandoned identity fraud actually means, criminals exploiting the identities of babies, deceased individuals, and people who simply don't monitor their own credit.
• Why traditional banking fraud vulnerabilities, like slow-moving cross-border wire fraud, are getting overlooked while everyone's attention shifts to AI and crypto.
• A practical framework for proactive fraud detection, including fraud detection beyond login and why the real fight starts before someone ever reaches your app.
• How layered fraud detection stacks and agentic AI fraud tools are being used to catch AI-scaled attacks, including one financial institution that saw 250,000 fraudulent account signups in a matter of days.
• Why IAFCI conference collaboration, a shared conversation, a follow-up call, a number saved after one good conversation, is still one of the most effective fraud-fighting tools out there.

• Work in business banking, commercial lending, or B2B fraud detection and want to hear this category taken seriously.
• Are responsible for business identity verification and want to understand how beneficial ownership fraud is shifting under new FinCEN rules.
• Have been affected by business email compromise or want to understand how compromised business inbox markets actually operate.
• Are building or evaluating layered fraud detection stacks and want real examples of agentic AI fraud tools in production.
• Believe fraud detection beyond login matters as much as anything happening inside your app.
• Want a genuine feel for why IAFCI conference collaboration keeps coming up as fraud fighters' biggest advantage.