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3 fraud vectors to watch: synthetic identities, deepfakes, and identity mules

Feb 23, 2026 By Louis DeNicola In Persona
Audiences around the world may be captivated by dramatic stories of con men like the Tinder Swindler. But this type of fraud is the exception rather than the rule. Most criminals go to great lengths to stay hidden and minimize the risk of getting caught. Sometimes, though, a criminal needs to show their face — or at least, a face — to pass identity checks.
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Simplifying how businesses pay creators and contractors worldwide with Trolley - S2E10

Feb 23, 2026 By Persona In Persona
In this episode, we're excited to introduce Barnett Klane, VP of Product at Trolley, the leading payouts platform powering the internet economy. Trolley enables businesses to automate global payments to creators, freelancers, and contractors across 210+ countries and territories, serving major companies. Barnett previously founded MyManual and held product roles at Bugcrowd, bringing deep expertise in building products at the intersection of payments, compliance, and creator platforms.
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Dinari bridges traditional markets and digital assets - S2E09

Feb 4, 2026 By Persona In Persona
In this episode, we're excited to introduce Brandon Ooi, the COO of Dinari, a fintech innovator making compliant tokenized securities accessible to investors. Brandon co-founded Crunchyroll as its CTO and worked at Stripe as an engineer specializing in marketplace enterprises, bringing deep technical expertise and product leadership to the intersection of traditional finance and blockchain technology. Join us as we explore Brandon's journey from building beloved consumer platforms to pioneering the future of securities trading, and how Dinari is bridging the gap between traditional markets and digital assets.
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7 ways synthetic identity fraud is changing in 2026

Feb 4, 2026 By Louis DeNicola In Persona
Synthetic identity fraud used to be a specialty fraud job. Bad actors created synthetic identities by modifying personal information, combining multiple real identities, or combining real and fake information. But building up identities convincing enough to pass muster took time, research, and effort. As a result, you typically saw synthetic identity fraud when bad actors targeted organizations that could pay off in a significant way.
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Safe agentic commerce starts with KYA and dynamic IDV

Jan 26, 2026 By Ross Freiman-Mendel In Persona
Product, fraud, and trust and safety teams at online merchants and marketplaces have been fighting bots for a long time. While there were occasional disagreements about how “bad” bots were (a purchase is a purchase, some might say), the general consensus often ranged from suspicious to block them all. But not anymore. As AI-powered browsers and agents become more commonplace, online merchants have to prepare for a world where agentic commerce is a standard sales channel.
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As online fraud expands, here's how you can stay ahead

Jan 23, 2026 By Louis DeNicola In Persona
Globally, companies lost an average of 7.7% of their annual revenue to fraud, according to TransUnion’s 2025 Digital Identity Risk Accelerates Fraud Losses report. In the US, companies reported revenue losses of 9.8%, a 46% increase from the previous year. That’s hundreds of billions of dollars heading into the hands of fraudsters. And those stats don’t account for the loss of trust, hit to brand reputation, and time and resources spent on mitigating and resolving the fraud.
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What is identity muling, and how can you prevent this new fraud vector?

Jan 23, 2026 By Louis DeNicola In Persona
An identity mule is someone who is compensated for sharing their identity. They may be asked for pictures of their identification documents and video selfies. Or, instructed to create an account and complete an identity verification flow before handing over the account’s credentials to a bad actor. The fraud cat-and-mouse game is taking a new turn. As organizations get better at detecting deepfakes, some bad actors are using real people’s identities to commit fraud.
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The rise of fake job applicants: Why workforce security must start before day one

Jan 21, 2026 By Jenna Kim In Persona
All over the world, companies are seeing a rise in fake job applicants. You may have experienced it yourself: dozens of near-identical resumes arriving within hours, or candidates who refuse to turn on their camera during video interviews. Remote hiring, global talent pools, AI-generated resumes, and increasingly sophisticated fraud networks have profoundly changed the hiring landscape. Traditional hiring processes were never built to defend against the types of candidate fraud we’re seeing today.
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6 ways Persona's Graph helps you fight sophisticated and scaling fraud

Jan 14, 2026 By Louis DeNicola In Persona
For fraud fighters, link analysis tools like Persona’s Graph are becoming essential for stopping account sharing, deepfakes, identity mules, and other forms of sophisticated or scaling fraud attacks. Since we launched Graph in early 2023, we’ve spent countless hours gathering feedback from customers, investigating the latest fraud vectors, and testing new technology. Graph is a better product as a result, and we want to share six improvements that are helping fraud fighters today.
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5 fraud and identity experts on 2025-2026 trends

Dec 15, 2025 By Louis DeNicola In Persona
As with previous years, we asked identity and fraud experts to reflect on the closing year and share a few predictions for the next. You’ll get unique perspectives from fraud fighters, researchers, and an executive. We asked them about unexpected fraud trends, which tactics will become more valuable, leadership’s changing perceptions, and AI, of course. But we kicked things off with a lighthearted question.
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