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Thursday, September 24, 2026

Turkey arrested 175 in a 266 million dollar forex and crypto fraud network
Turkish authorities detained 175 people over an alleged international forex and crypto fraud scheme worth 266 million dollars. The operation reads like a template for what regulators in the region will do next.
Market Authority8 min read

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

At Money20/20 Asia, a Fraud Executive Said the Quiet Part Out Loud
At Money20/20 Asia in Bangkok, VIDA founder Niki Luhur described fraud across Southeast Asia as having reached industrial scale, run by cross-border syndicates. His most important technical warning was not about deepfakes. It was about injection attacks.
APAC Intelligence4 min read

Saturday, July 25, 2026

The UN Says Asia Lost Up to $114 Billion to Online Scams Last Year. That Is Triple 2023.
A United Nations report released on July 21, 2026 estimates that victims across East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand lost between 88.3 and 114.1 billion dollars to online scams in 2025, at least three times the 2023 figure. For every legitimate financial brand in the region, this is now the defining trust problem.
APAC Intelligence5 min read

Sunday, May 31, 2026

APAC Fintech Is Growing at Full Speed Into an Industrial-Scale Fraud Crisis
Southeast Asia now dominates global fintech expansion plans, with digital payments projected to exceed $1.5 trillion in 2026. At the same moment, fraud across the region has reached what regulators and industry leaders are calling industrial scale, with synthetic identity attacks up 142 percent and deepfake fraud surging over 1,500 percent in Singapore alone. The two stories cannot be separated.
APAC Intelligence10 min read