The hardest fraud to stop is the one the customer approves. By the time the money moves, there is nothing left to refuse.

Investment scams and fake platforms cost billions annually. If you try to fight these operations at the transaction layer, you lose, because the payment is the criminals' most defensible point.

But Group-IB’s latest analysis reveals their fatal flaw: fraud at this scale cannot afford to be artisanal. What makes these operations industrial also makes them profoundly networked through shared hosting, reused templates, and connected mule accounts.

Article three, in Dmitry Volkov's One Adversary series, shifts the focus from the payment to the network. It challenges you to ask the exact question every CRO should be putting on the agenda: how do we see what peer institutions have flagged without customer data ever leaving the bank?

Read it here.

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