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Welcome to Veriff Voices, a podcast where tech leaders discuss the journey of building a safe and secure online world. We explore the key challenges and opportunities in today's online world, such as digital identity, user experience, and the fight against fraud. Alongside actionable strategies and exclusive insights, discover personal perspectives from life inside the multi-billion dollar global identity verification sector. You can learn more at https://www.veriff.com and watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bitly.ws/Devm

  1. 1d ago

    Inside the business of fraud

    Welcome to the Veriff Voices Deepfakes Series. If you still picture a fraudster as a bored teenager in a basement, it's time to update your threat model. Today's fraud rings are well-funded, highly organized corporate enterprises. And thanks to generative AI, the broken grammar and clumsy emails that used to give them away are officially gone. This episode jumps straight into the conversation, so let us set the stage: In episode three of our Deepfakes Series, host Anisah Osman Britton sits down with US tax attorney, author, and Taxgirl creator Kelly Phillips Erb to decode the business of modern fraud. Erb spends her days on both sides of the identity crisis: representing clients who have lost everything to sophisticated schemes, and writing about the criminal networks that catch them. From the weaponization of manufactured urgency to the underground pipeline of stolen medical data, Erb explains why our traditional defenses against scams are failing, and how to build better friction to protect ourselves and our users. Let's get into it. [00:00] Introduction: meet tax attorney Kelly Phillips Erb  [04:14] The basement hacker myth vs. organized crime [07:27] Why arguing with scammers makes you a target [09:07] The identity supply chain and medical record theft [14:05] The double scam: when the "fix" is the fraud [15:20] Manufactured urgency and the rise of corporate job scams [20:11] Who oganized fraud rings target and why [23:39] Practical defense: slowing down and creating friction [29:45] Victim shaming and the role of the media [35:25] The future of the AI fraud economy Read our blog about this conversation: https://www.veriff.com/podcasts/deepfakes-series-business-of-fraud  Produced by Any other Business.

    Inside the business of fraud
  2. Jun 26

    A brave new (agentic) world

    Have you ever wondered what happens to digital identity when the entities interacting on your platform are no longer humans, completely altering how we establish online trust? In this second episode of our deepfake series, host Anisah speaks to government technology specialist Luukas Ilves and Veriff's Hubert Behaghel about the rapid rise of autonomous AI agents and the dawn of the agentic economy. From exploring the hidden security vulnerabilities of unmanaged digital assistants to unpacking why traditional, circumstantial identity signals fail entirely against advanced deepfakes, this conversation demystifies the fast-moving landscape of automated tech. They offer unique insights on the critical necessity of a pervasive trust infrastructure, the mechanics of limited digital delegation, and how both public and private sectors can successfully scale automation while keeping human accountability firmly at the center of the experience. Produced by Any other Business. [02:07] The catalyst for writing the report [04:26] The urgency of government transformation [05:58] Identity verification in the age of AI [08:03] The pull factors of government transformation [11:15] Estonia's digital transformation as a model [14:28] The importance of ecosystem and sovereignty [18:51] Strategies for effective transformation [22:25] Navigating technical and non-technical divide [25:22] Security risks in AI and agentic systems [27:46] Government's role in AI development [31:18] The importance of identity in AI interactions [39:05] Establishing guardrails for agentic AI Read Luukas Ilves's Agentic State paper on how agentic AI will transform government and defines the contours of the Agentic State. For key takeaways from Luukas and Hubert's conversation, read our blog. Get Veriff's Deepfakes report to find out detection accuracy rates, gender differences in spotting fakes, and AI-powered defense strategies.

    A brave new (agentic) world

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Welcome to Veriff Voices, a podcast where tech leaders discuss the journey of building a safe and secure online world. We explore the key challenges and opportunities in today's online world, such as digital identity, user experience, and the fight against fraud. Alongside actionable strategies and exclusive insights, discover personal perspectives from life inside the multi-billion dollar global identity verification sector. You can learn more at https://www.veriff.com and watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bitly.ws/Devm