Top 10 Fraud Prevention Podcasts to Follow in 2026

The intelligence that matters most in fraud prevention is the hardest to capture. Take the chargeback ring that hit a peer's team this quarter, the vendor whose detection model is underperforming, or a new attack pattern that nobody has yet named. These signals never appear on a KPI dashboard, but they shape how the best fraud teams operate.

Podcasts carry these conversations at scale. The long-form format lets practitioners go beyond surface commentary and explore how fraud plays out in the field. An hour of unscripted dialogue between practitioners sits closer to a conference hallway than a whitepaper, and the best fraud shows of 2026 publish war stories, vendor honesty and regulatory nuance you will not find elsewhere.

We have already covered the fraud experts worth following on LinkedIn and the top YouTube channels about fraud, scams and financial crime. Podcasts are the third format worth your time.

Here are 10 fraud prevention podcasts worth a place in your listening queue in 2026, chosen with ecommerce, payments and marketplace operators in mind.

How we picked these

Dozens of "best fraud podcasts" lists already exist, so we set a tighter filter. To make this list, a show had to meet five criteria:

•     Relevance to applied fraud prevention. Shows focused on the operational side of fraud rather than pure compliance or academic coverage. AML and broader financial-crime shows made the cut only when they address practical fraud operations.

•     Active in 2026. We focused on shows with episodes published in the first half of 2026. Two exceptions appear at the end of the list, flagged as back-catalogue picks for anyone working on marketplace or trust & safety fraud.

•     Practitioner-led. Hosts or recurring guests with operational scars: former fraud heads, merchant risk leaders, payments execs, trust & safety operators.

•     Actionable depth. Episodes that move beyond "fraud is bad" into specific tactics, vendor trade-offs, regulatory changes and post-mortems.

•     Diverse perspectives. A mix of merchant-side, vendor-side, banking, marketplace and association voices, so the list isn't monocultural.

We grouped the ten shows by what they do best, rather than ranking them one to ten. Fraud teams gain more from rotating across the groupings: operational deep-dives sharpen day-to-day practice, while executive and industry shows keep your strategic radar tuned.

Operational deep-dives

These are the shows you listen to when you want specific tactics you can take back to your team on Monday morning.

1. The Fraud Boxer Podcast

•     Host: Jordan Harris, with co-hosts Cambria Valente ("Fraud Focus") and Jacqueline Chilton ("Payments Corner").

•     Format & cadence: Mixed interview and panel format. Steady output, with a strong run of conference-recorded episodes around MRC each year.

The Fraud Boxer Podcast sits at the intersection that matters most for the Trustfull audience: payments, fraud and cybersecurity in one conversation. The live recordings from MRC 2026 in Las Vegas are candid for an industry podcast, with fraud leaders from large platforms discussing where their controls are breaking and what they are investing in next.

Where to start: The MRC 2026 episode on account takeover with Andre Ferraz of Incognia and Steven Coates, Director of Global Fraud Prevention at Ticketmaster. A useful counterpoint to the "ATO is just credential stuffing" framing, with Coates arguing that the account itself is now worth more than the card on file.

2. Fraudology

•     Host: Karisse Hendrick, a fraud fighter with decades of advisory work for major ecommerce companies.

•     Format & cadence: Weekly, around 50 minutes, interview format. New episodes most Tuesdays.

Hendrick has spent years in the chargeback, dispute and policy-abuse trenches of large merchants, and the show digs into the operational mechanics other fraud coverage skips, such as VAMP threshold mechanics, deepfake-powered scams, account-takeover tactics like the 'Two-Victim ATO,' the impact of agentic AI on checkout, and refund-as-a-service rings.

Where to start: The episode with Robbie MacDiarmid on the rise of agentic AI and its implications for fraud prevention, payments and liability in ecommerce. It frames a debate every merchant fraud team will be having for the next 18 months.

Industry, regulatory and banking voices

These shows keep your strategic radar tuned to what is coming next: new rules, sector-wide trends, the institutional view.

3. Fraud Talk

•     Hosts: John Duffley and Rihonna Scoggins, with rotating ACFE staff and guest hosts.

•     Format & cadence: Roughly monthly, around 37 minutes, interview format. Active since 2017.

Fraud Talk is the institutional voice of the fraud examiner profession. Episodes range from forensic accounting and whistleblower protection to OSINT in investigations, and it is the show to follow if you want to understand how fraud, financial crime and corporate integrity professionals are framing the threats. A useful counterweight to more operational, vendor-led sources.

Where to start: The January 2026 episode with ACFE President and CEO John Warren and Fraud Magazine Editor-in-Chief Jen Liebman, breaking down the most scandalous frauds of 2025 and what they reveal about today’s global fraud landscape. For something more career-focused, look up the "Building Your Brand" conversation with Chris Ekimoff.

4. ABA Fraudcast

•     Host: Paul Benda, EVP for risk, fraud and cybersecurity at the American Bankers Association.

•     Format & cadence: Published every three weeks, focused on practical playbooks for financial institutions.

The banking counterweight to the merchant-side shows on this list. ABA Fraudcast leans into payments fraud, check fraud, AI-enabled scams and the reimbursement debate. It is useful for anyone in payments or fintech who needs to understand how their banking counterparties are thinking about shared liability and fraud-loss allocation.

Where to start: "Big tech’s ad business is fueling a scam ecosystem", in which Paul Benda discusses how social media platforms could materially reduce scam losses and why current incentives keep them from doing so. Pair it with the recent episodes on the SCAM Act and the United Nations Global Fraud Summit for a clear picture of where US policy is heading.

5. Fraud Forward

•     Host: Hailey Windham, Community Banking Lead at Sardine and Certified Financial Crimes Specialist.

•     Format & cadence: Weekly. Relaunched in January 2026 from the previous "Banking on Fraudology" feed.

Banking-focused, practical and conversational rather than headline-chasing. Fraud Forward's framing is what's working, what's changing, and what fraud leaders need to prepare for as financial crime accelerates. That translates well to fintech and payment-provider audiences, and the new format with multiple guests per episode brings a useful spread of bank, credit-union and BSA perspectives into a single conversation.

Where to start: The relaunch episode, "Fraud at Machine Speed: What 2025 Taught Us About 2026", featuring Karen Boyer of M&T Bank, Jen Lamont of America’s Credit Union and Angela Diaz of TD. A no-hype look at digital arrest scams, Ghost Tap fraud and self-adapting AI attacks, with practical guidance on what to prioritize now.

Executive and big-picture

For when you want strategic context, not tactical detail.

6. Payments Unbound (J.P. Morgan)

•     Host: Mike Frost, Product Solutions Director, Trust & Safety, J.P. Morgan.

•     Format & cadence: Ongoing series within the Making Sense feed. Not weekly, but each fraud-focused episode is sharp and self-contained.

Payments Unbound is not a fraud podcast in the strict sense, but its fraud and security episodes are some of the best executive-level material available on payments fraud. The framing of five dimensions of fraud control across prevention, detection, investigation, remediation and containment is the kind of mental model fraud leaders can use to structure conversations with finance, product and the board.

Where to start: "Tackling fraud in a digital world", in which Mike Frost talks with J.P. Morgan's Vince Meluzio about multimodal fraud signals, identity validation in real time and the holistic five-dimension framework. A good listen before any executive presentation on fraud strategy.

Adjacent perspectives worth your time

These last two aren't pure ecommerce-fraud shows, but each fills a gap the others don't.

7. Fraudish

•     Host: Kelly Paxton, Certified Fraud Examiner, former federal special agent and "Pink Collar Crime" expert.

•     Format & cadence: Weekly on Tuesdays, around 47 minutes, interview format. Running since 2020, formerly as Great Women in Fraud before its rebrand to Fraudish.

Fraudish leans toward internal fraud, embezzlement and workplace dishonesty, a step away from the chargeback-and-checkout focus of the operational shows. Worth the time anyway, because almost every fraud team eventually finds itself investigating a refund-team employee, a finance-team controller or a partner gone rogue. Paxton's interviews with fraud professionals also produce some of the best career advice in the genre.

Where to start: Any episode where Paxton interviews a working fraud examiner about a specific case. That is where the show delivers the "small details that crack a case" stories that translate into better detection thinking.

8. The Perfect Scam

•     Host: Bob Sullivan, veteran consumer-protection journalist.

•     Format & cadence: Weekly, narrative documentary style with victim and expert interviews.

Consumer-scam framed and aimed at older audiences, but one of the most valuable shows on this list for understanding what your customers fall for. Account takeover, refund scams, romance fraud and pig-butchering all start with social-engineering patterns that this show breaks down in detail. If your fraud team only listens to industry-insider podcasts, you risk losing touch with the human side of the attack chain.

Where to start: "California Woman Warns of Facebook Job Scam", a recent episode about an AI-powered employment scam that drained $176,000 from a mid-career professional. A clear illustration of how modern scams blend platform trust, AI and traditional social engineering.

Back catalogues worth exploring, even if the show is on pause

The marketplace and trust & safety beat is underserved by mainstream fraud media, and the two shows below stopped publishing in mid-2024. We are including them anyway because their back catalogues remain the single strongest archive of platform-side fraud thinking, and both feeds are still available on Apple, Spotify and the podcasts of your choice.

9. Trust & Safety Mavericks

•     Host: Andre Ferraz, CEO and co-founder of Incognia.

•     Format & cadence: Ongoing series, mix of fireside chats, interviews and webinar recordings. No new episodes since mid-2024, though the feed has not been formally retired.

A natural fit for marketplace, gig-economy, delivery and gaming-app operators, sectors that don't always see themselves reflected in the broader fraud podcast landscape. Episodes feature platform-side practitioners from Etsy, Nextdoor, Wolt, M&T Bank and Shipt on fraud farms, courier scams, location spoofing and policy abuse on two-sided platforms. The back catalogue holds value even without new episodes, especially the conversations on driver and courier fraud, and Incognia remains very active in the trust & safety space.

Where to start: The episode with Garrett Olson, Head of Insurance and Risk at Wolt, on why identity is the foundation for platform trust & safety, and how identity failures create ripple effects all the way up to company strategy. Recorded with Marketplace Risk, so it doubles as a primer on the wider industry conversation.

10. Marketplace Risk Platform Podcast

•     Producer: Marketplace Risk, founded by Jeremy Gottschalk.

•     Format & cadence: Long-form conversations with platform founders, trust & safety leaders and risk experts. No new episodes since mid-2024, though Marketplace Risk the organisation continues to run major conferences.

The companion show to the Marketplace Risk Management Conference, and one of the deepest available libraries of platform-risk conversations. Episodes range across identity verification, content moderation, fraud prevention, legal strategy and trust & safety operations, with a deliberate focus on marketplaces, gig platforms and the sharing economy. The 120-episode back catalogue is the closest thing to an institutional memory of platform-risk thinking from the last few years.

Where to start: Episodes on identity verification as the cornerstone of trust & safety, and on measuring the business impact of trust & safety initiatives, are good entry points. Both are practical and useful for anyone building or scaling a platform risk function.

Honourable mentions

Three more worth knowing about, even if they didn't make the main list:

•     The Dark Money Files. Graham Barrow and Ray Blake on financial crime, money laundering and shell-company patterns. AML-heavy, but the company-formation episodes are essential context for anyone running KYB.

•     Easy Prey. Chris Parker on consumer scams and online safety. Sits next to The Perfect Scam in style; pick whichever host's voice you prefer.

•     Scam Goddess. Laci Mosley's comedy take on historical and current scams. Not a work podcast, but a useful palate cleanser for fraud teams who spend too much of their day in incident channels.

Have we missed one?

If you think we've left a podcast off this list, particularly something focused on the operational side of fraud prevention, we would love to hear about it. The fraud-content ecosystem changes as fast as the fraud landscape itself, and we aim to revisit this list every year.