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Becky Holmes on the future of online fraud

Oct 19, 2026

The internet is a fraudster’s dream, allowing criminals to run scams with the click of a button. Romance scams, deepfake scams, financial scams, and others are omnipresent and recently became even easier to run, thanks to AI. Anti-scam expert Becky Holmes discusses her new book, “The Future of Fraud.”

Show Notes

• The Future of Fraud, by Becky Holmes (published by Melville House)

• PBS Frontline: Scammed (Sep 29, 2026) – thanks to listener Ron for pointing it out

• Apr 7, 2025 Techtonic with Sue-Lin Wong, from the Economist, on “pig-butchering” scams

• Jan 16, 2023 Techtonic with Craig Silverman on Google’s ad business of “porn, piracy, and fraud” – discussing his ProPublica story Porn, Piracy, Fraud: What Lurks Inside Google’s Black Box Ad Empire (Dec 21, 2022)
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