The most dangerous fraudster in the world today may not be a person at all.

Interpol's second edition Global Financial Fraud Threat Assessment, released during its annual fraud summit, draws a line in the sand that security practitioners and financial crime investigators cannot afford to ignore. AI-enhanced fraud schemes now generate 4.5 times more revenue than conventional fraud tactics, it said.

Global financial fraud losses reached an estimated $442 billion in 2025

And a new class of autonomous AI, known as agentic AI, is planning and executing an entire fraud campaign from start to finish without any human intervention.

Agentic AI refers to artificial intelligence systems capab...