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Fraud Prevention
Alex Wood
Fraud Prevention and Social Engineering Expert, BBC Scam Secrets Contributor
Alex is a fraud prevention and social engineering expert who helps organizations understand how modern scams work, why they succeed, and how to respond to them more effectively. He is a contributor to BBC Scam Secrets and a widely recognized speaker on fraud risk, behavioral manipulation, and the tactics used in today’s most damaging attacks. His work spans fraud awareness, investigations, and advisory roles across the public and private sectors. Alex serves on the boards of several organizations in the fraud and integrity space, including the Financial Fraud Awareness Campaign, Platinum High Integrity Technologies, and Abatis Security Innovations and Technologies. He is also the CEO of Ergo Marketing LTD and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2025.
Arturs Linde
Head of Fraud Prevention at Paybis
Arturs Linde is a fraud prevention expert with hands-on experience across fraud operations, chargebacks, payment risk, and anti-fraud strategy. At Paybis, he has progressed from Anti-Fraud Specialist and Chargeback Analyst to Head of Fraud Prevention, giving him a practical view of how fraud teams detect threats, manage losses, and strengthen controls over time. His work covers fraud strategy, detection tools, fraud pattern analysis, chargeback management, and risk controls across payment methods and transaction flows. Arturs also works closely with third-party KYC, fraud detection, and acquiring partners, bringing a strong operational perspective on how fraud prevention works inside fast-moving fintech and crypto environments.
Angelina Škrabec
AML Governance
& Training Manager at evoke
Angelina Škrabec is a financial crime and fraud prevention professional with hands-on experience across AML, risk, sanctions, and fraud operations in the iGaming sector. Her background spans fraud and risk analysis, customer investigations, AML casework, and governance, giving her a practical view of how fraud prevention connects with broader financial crime controls. She currently works in AML governance and training at Evoke, where she supports risk assessment, policy ownership, control design, and company-wide awareness across multiple jurisdictions. Earlier in her career, she held fraud, risk, and AML roles at Bally’s, William Hill International, and The Stars Group. This mix of operational and governance experience makes her especially strong at explaining how fraud risks develop in real business environments and how teams can respond with clearer controls, sharper processes, and better training.
Michael Dare
Fraud Investigator
at iFAST Global Bank Limited
Michael Dare is a fraud investigator with close to a decade of experience in banking fraud, fraud analysis, and online fraud prevention. His background spans fraud investigations, fraud profiling, card-not-present fraud, and fraud claims, giving him strong practical expertise in how suspicious activity is identified, reviewed, and escalated in financial services. He currently works as a Fraud Investigator at iFAST Global Bank and previously held fraud investigation and senior fraud profiling roles at Coutts. Earlier in his career, he also worked at NatWest, building a solid foundation in banking operations and customer risk. This mix of investigative and operational experience makes him especially strong at explaining how fraud prevention works in practice inside real financial institutions.
Ivan Prokoviev
Fraud Strategy & Analytics Manager at Cleo
Ivan Prokofev is a fraud expert with more than 12 years of experience across fraud strategy, analytics, payments fraud, and fraud operations. His background spans Cleo, MoonPay, Bumble, Booking.com, and Gett, giving him a strong cross-industry view of how fraud teams build controls, measure performance, and adapt detection to different products and risk environments. He has led and scaled fraud prevention work across marketplaces, travel, fintech, and crypto, with hands-on experience in fraud analytics, recovery workflows, vendor management, and cross-functional collaboration with product and engineering teams. Alongside his operational work, Ivan is also the host of the podcast A Journey Into Fraud Prevention, where he explores fraud trends, tactics, and the realities of building effective fraud programs.
Matteo Gamba
Fintech Industry Expert
Matteo Gamba is a senior payments and product leader with deep expertise in fraud prevention, payments strategy, and global commerce. His background spans Wayfair, Wise, and Rocket Internet, where he led payment and fraud initiatives across large-scale e-commerce and fintech environments. At Wayfair, Matteo spent nearly a decade building and scaling global payments and fraud capabilities, eventually serving as Head of Product for Global Payments and Fraud. His work covered fraud systems, orchestration, vendor strategy, UX, and payment optimization across multiple markets and channels. He also serves in advisory roles within the payments industry, including the Merchant Risk Council and the Merchant Payments Ecosystem, bringing a strong strategic perspective on how payments and fraud can drive both protection and business performance.
Svetla Gocheva
Technical Pre-Sales Manager at Sumsub
Svetla Gocheva is a technical pre-sales and verification solutions expert with hands-on experience across user verification, document research, solution design, and client-facing implementation. Her background spans both operational and technical roles, giving her a strong understanding of how verification products work in practice and how teams use them in real business environments. Before joining Sumsub as Technical Pre-Sales Manager, she spent more than six years at Veriff, where she progressed through roles including Verification Specialist, Document Database Research Specialist, Solutions Engineer, Post-Sales Solutions Engineer, and Senior Solutions Engineer. This mix of product, operational, and customer-facing experience makes her especially strong at explaining verification workflows, technical setup, and the practical realities of working with identity verification solutions.
Arthur Tsvettsih
Software Architect at Sumsub
Arthur Tsvettish is a software architect and engineering leader with experience building and scaling complex technology products. His background spans software architecture, engineering management, and backend development, with a strong focus on scalable systems, cross-functional delivery, and technical execution. Before joining Sumsub as a Software Architect, he spent nearly five years at Checkout.com, where he progressed from Software Engineer to Engineering Manager. Earlier in his career, he also worked in software engineering roles at The Plum Guide and IRIS Software Systems. This combination of deep technical expertise and leadership experience makes him especially strong at explaining how product architecture, system design, and engineering decisions shape real-world verification solutions.
Start date On demand
Average completion time 5 hours
Fraud prevention course for professionals who want to understand how digital fraud works in practice across onboarding, account access, payments, and cash-out.
This training explores how digital fraud appears inside real products and operations. You will learn how different fraud types work, how fraudsters exploit users and systems, and which signals teams can use to detect abuse earlier, before it turns into visible loss, disputes, or operational pressure.
Built around practical scenarios that fraud prevention and risk teams face, the program covers first-party, second-party, and third-party fraud, account takeover, social engineering, identity abuse, automation, and the tools fraudsters use to scale attacks. It also explains how recent fraud trends, attack patterns, and industry shifts are changing the way teams investigate and respond to fraud today.
Led by practitioners working in fraud prevention and related fields, this online course combines expert-led sessions, real examples, and key statistics to show how strong fraud programs balance loss prevention, customer friction, and operational load in real business environments.
Key takeaways
- Recognize how fraud appears across onboarding, account access, payments, and cash-out
- Distinguish between first-party, second-party, and third-party fraud in practice
- Understand how fraudsters use social engineering, account takeover, and identity abuse
- Identify the tools and technologies that make fraud attacks scalable
- Spot early fraud signals before losses become fully visible
- Understand how recent fraud trends and attack patterns are changing detection
- Learn how strong fraud programs balance loss, friction, and operational load
- Apply expert-led examples and real-world cases to build practical fraud context
Who is it for
- Fraud prevention, fraud operations, and risk teams
- Compliance, AML, and financial crime professionals working close to fraud risks
- Product managers and product operations teams responsible for user flows, controls, and abuse prevention
- Payments, trust and safety, and account security teams
- Analysts and investigators reviewing suspicious user behavior and transactions
- Early career professionals building a practical foundation in fraud prevention
- Managers looking for a structured way to train teams on digital fraud fundamentals
Meet your guides
Module 1: Digital fraud foundations
Understand how digital fraud works, who commits it, and how attacks play out in practice.
Alex WoodBBC Presenter (Scam Secrets), Keynote Speaker and Government AdvisorModule 2: Fraud lifecycle, entities and data
Explore how fraud develops across the user lifecycle and which entities and data points help reveal it.
Arthur TsvettsihSoftware Architect at SumsubSvetla GochevaTechnical Pre-Sales Manager at SumsubModule 3: Fraud signals and detection methods
Identify the signals, patterns, and detection methods teams use to spot suspicious activity.
Ivan ProkovievFraud Strategy & Analytics Manager at CleoSvetla GochevaTechnical Pre-Sales Manager at SumsubModule 4: Common fraud schemes
Break down the most common fraud schemes and see how they appear inside real products and operations.
Arthur TsvettsihSoftware Architect at SumsubArturs LindeHead of Fraud Prevention at PaybisModule 5: Industry-specific fraud risks
Compare how fraud risks differ across industries and how controls need to adapt.
Michael DareFraud Investigator at iFAST Global Bank LimitedArturs LindeHead of Fraud Prevention at PaybisAngelina ŠkrabecAML Governance & Training Manager at evokeMatteo GambaFintech Industry ExpertModule 6: Operating a fraud prevention function
See how fraud teams operate day to day and how strong programs balance risk, ops, and growth.
Ivan ProkovievFraud Strategy & Analytics Manager at CleoMatteo GambaFintech Industry Expert
Course design
The Fraud Prevention course is designed for all experience levels, whether you’re a newcomer or seasoned professional, ensuring every learner can strengthen their expertise. Each module combines clear explanations with real-world case studies, giving you the confidence to apply fraud prevention concepts in practice from day one.
Expect engaging, on-demand content, including:
- Downloadable guides with each module
- Quizzes to test and reinforce your knowledge
- A professional certificate upon course completion
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