In this episode, “The democratization of fraud meets fraud-as-a-service (FaaS),” Sift Trust and Safety Architects discuss how evolving methods of both casual and commercialized fraud present an increasing risk to online businesses and consumers everywhere. They share who and what to watch out for, where to look for unexpected vulnerabilities, and how merchants can keep people and profits secure.

Crypto-based fraud is on the rise and evolving inside a disrupted market. In this episode of the Digital Trust & Safety Insider Podcast, Sift Trust and Safety Architect Jeff Sakasegawa speaks with Special Agent Shawn Bradstreet about the U.S. Secret Service’s ongoing investigation into “pig butchering”—a global fraud phenomenon combining online romance scams with a crypto twist.

Gaming and gambling operators haven’t had decades to figure out the fight against online fraud. At best, they’ve had a few years, all marked with global economic disruption and digital transformation. Businesses in every market and at every stage of growth can learn a couple of fraud-fighting cheat codes from our friends in gaming. In part 2 of this episode of the Digital Trust & Safety Insider podcast, Sift VP of Trust and Safety, Kevin Lee, continues his discussion with Dom Squeo, gaming industry veteran and risk consultant for Eilers & Krejcik, about the impact of evolving fraud strategies and how to protect your platform from abuse.

Gaming and gambling operators haven’t had decades to figure out the fight against online fraud. At best, they’ve had a few years, all marked with global economic disruption and digital transformation. Businesses in every market and at every stage of growth can learn a couple of fraud-fighting cheat codes from our friends in gaming. In part 1 of this episode of the Digital Trust & Safety Insider podcast, Sift VP of Trust and Safety, Kevin Lee, chats with Dom Squeo, gaming industry veteran and risk consultant for Eilers & Krejcik, about the impact of evolving fraud strategies on the mobile and online gaming space, and what providers need to know to stay on top.

As we mark the second anniversary of COVID-19, online providers are once again facing disrupted consumer demand and behavior, supply chain shortages, unchecked inflation, and global socioeconomic unrest. Jeff Sakasegawa, Trust and Safety Architect at Sift, shares his take on what economists are calling 2022’s “summer of hell,” and how fraudsters are poised to turn these problems into profits.

In this episode of the Digital Trust & Safety Insider Podcast, Trust & Safety Architect Jane Lee sits down with Host Arwen Heredia to share her experience exposing an emerging romance-meets-crypto scam known as Pig Butchering.

We're back! In this new episode of Trust & Safety in Numbers, Sift Trust and Safety Architect and new host, Jeff Sakasegawa, sits down with Sift CEO, Jason Tan, to discuss how the pandemic has accelerated a global digital transformation, the role trust and safety is playing, and which recent changes are here to stay.

Sahil Farooqi, head of customer care & safety at Rently, shares how his innovative startup builds a hybrid fraud-fighting solution that combines the efficiency of machine learning with the nuance of the human eye.