The New Front Lines of Financial Crime in Africa

"The fraudsters have the same AI tools we do. The difference is who uses them faster."

Africa's payments, banking, and digital commerce ecosystem is expanding at extraordinary speed, and fraud is scaling right alongside it. In this special episode of What The Fraud?, recorded live at Seamless Africa in Johannesburg, Chantal Lamprecht from Sumsub sits down with leaders across crypto, legal, and iGaming to unpack how fraud actually works on the ground in Africa, and what it will take for the industry to stay ahead.

Our guests include:

1. John Jacobs (Head of Financial Crime, VALR) on why crypto fraud runs on the same decades-old typologies as traditional finance, just faster and borderless, why attribution, not tracing, is the hardest part of on-chain investigations, and why Africa's crypto adoption boom is fueling a rise in money mule recruitment.
2. Larry Cooke (Larry Cooke, Africa Head of Legal at Binance) on the regulatory gaps opening up as crypto credit products emerge, why "thoughtful" regulation beats "more" regulation, the rise of P2P fraud and reverse chargebacks, and why closing the trust gap between regulators, exchanges, and users is the real work ahead.
3. Mandy Alexander (Head of Financial Crime and Customer Care Product, DigiOutsource / Super Group) on 20 years watching iGaming fraud teams evolve from chargeback-chasers into full-blown "FRAML" operations, why friction should only ever be justified by data, and why patience, not chasing shiny new tools, is what actually delivers ROI from AI and automation.

Links:

• Sumsub's Website: sumsub.com
• Sumsub's LinkedIn: linkedin.com/sumsub
• Sumsub's Instagram: instagram.com/sumsubcom
• Sumsub on X: x.com/Sumsubcom
• Sumsub's YouTube Channel: youtube.com/@sumsubcom
• John Jacobs on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/john-jacobs-87b183122
• Larry Cooke on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/larry-cooke-38390b115
• Mandy Alexander on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mandy-alexander-8560a2a

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