Fraudsters Stick to What Works Even in the Age of AI

A Look Back at 3 Key Identity Fraud Trends in 2025 Suparna Goswami (gsuparna) • December 30, 2025

Fraudsters stick to the basics, because the basics work. Synthetic identities, fake accounts and tried-and-tested account takeovers still work, even in an age of artificial intelligence-related threats. Deepfakes and other AI threats may dominate the discourse, but scammers are happy to keep on stealing the old-fashioned way.

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Fraud teams are rushing to build AI-powered defenses and detection systems for tomorrow's threats, while fraudsters find success with yesterday's playbook. Enterprises are not ignoring identity fraud - but are definitely sidelining it. When executive attention and security budgets tilt heavily toward emerging AI threats, the unglamorous work of strengthening identity verification, monitoring account behavior and closing authentication gaps often gets deferred.

Here are three identity fraud trends that tell the ...