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Online gambling fraud includes more than bonus abuse, payment fraud, account takeover and suspicious withdrawals on a genuine betting platform. Fake gambling sites, cloned apps and deceptive social ads can capture players before they reach that platform, diverting registrations, credentials and deposits into an attacker-controlled or unlicensed environment.

Reducing payment fraud risk requires giving existing fraud controls enough context to distinguish higher-risk interactions from routine activity, rather than applying more checks to every customer. That distinction matters. UK Finance reported that criminals stole almost £1.3 billion through authorized and unauthorized fraud in the UK during 2025. Authorized push payment fraud alone accounted for £576.4 million, up 19% year over year.