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AI-enabled fraud spikes across contact centers, healthcare, and retail

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AI-enabled fraud surged across voice and virtual meeting channels in 2025, increasing the risk of account takeover and fraudulent payments for enterprise targets. The shift is being driven by synthetic voices, voice bots, and AI-generated interactions that are cheaper, faster, and harder to detect than traditional fraud. Attackers are first probing IVR systems for workflow details, then reusing that reconnaissance to make social engineering more effective. The trend is especially visible in healthcare and retail, where bot-driven abuse is producing material losses.

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  1. 05.02.2026 12:05 2 articles · 3mo ago

    Pindrop publishes 2025 AI fraud spike report

    Initial Disclosure

    Pindrop publishes Inside the 2025 AI Fraud Spike, a report based on data collected between January and December 2025 that says AI-enabled fraud rose 1210% and describes attackers using voice bots, deepfakes, and AI-generated interactions across contact centers and virtual meetings. The report says fraudsters first probe enterprise and call center Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems for reconnaissance before returning with learned workflows, and it highlights healthcare and retail as especially exposed.

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