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AI-Enabled Fraud Surges 1210% in 2025

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Fraudsters significantly increased the use of AI to enhance campaigns across voice and virtual meeting channels in 2025, leading to a 1210% rise in AI-enabled fraud compared to a 195% surge in traditional fraud. The fraud tactics, including deepfakes, voice bots, and AI-generated interactions, are cheaper, faster, harder to detect, and more scalable. These methods are now being used in various real-time interactions, from remote job interviews to financial transactions, posing a significant challenge for enterprises. The report highlights that voice fraud often begins with automated bots performing reconnaissance on IVR systems, mapping menu options, and identifying security weak points. Later, these bots return with knowledge about processes and workflows to execute more effective fraud attempts. In enterprise settings, AI is also used to deploy deepfakes of C-suite executives in virtual meetings to trick employees into wiring funds to fraudsters. Healthcare and retail sectors are particularly vulnerable, with bots using intel from IVR probing to socially engineer live agents into enabling account takeovers. In retail, AI-powered return fraud is a growing threat, targeting low-dollar refunds that stay below review thresholds, leading to material losses when bots run continuously.

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  1. 05.02.2026 12:05 1 articles · 12h ago

    AI-Enabled Fraud Surges 1210% in 2025

    Fraudsters significantly increased the use of AI to enhance campaigns across voice and virtual meeting channels in 2025, leading to a 1210% rise in AI-enabled fraud compared to a 195% surge in traditional fraud. The fraud tactics, including deepfakes, voice bots, and AI-generated interactions, are cheaper, faster, harder to detect, and more scalable. These methods are now being used in various real-time interactions, from remote job interviews to financial transactions, posing a significant challenge for enterprises.

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  • AI-enabled fraud surged 1210% in 2025, compared to a 195% increase in traditional fraud.

    First reported: 05.02.2026 12:05
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  • Fraudsters use automated bots to perform reconnaissance on IVR systems, mapping menu options and identifying security weak points.

    First reported: 05.02.2026 12:05
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  • AI-generated deepfakes of C-suite executives are used in virtual meetings to trick employees into wiring funds to fraudsters.

    First reported: 05.02.2026 12:05
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  • Healthcare and retail sectors are particularly vulnerable to AI-enabled fraud, with bots using intel from IVR probing to socially engineer live agents.

    First reported: 05.02.2026 12:05
    1 source, 1 article
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  • AI-powered return fraud in retail targets low-dollar refunds that stay below review thresholds, leading to material losses when bots run continuously.

    First reported: 05.02.2026 12:05
    1 source, 1 article
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  • Pindrop detected a 56% monthly increase in non-live fraud in the retail sector in November 2025, while non-AI fraud dropped by 69% in the same period.

    First reported: 05.02.2026 12:05
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