Jessica Cath on BEYONDai

Fraud has industrialised, and the UK's own infrastructure makes it a hot spot: payments that move in seconds and a crypto network where fraudulent funds hub. Jessica Cath's anatomy runs from the romance scam's first contact to the snatched phone that becomes a snatched bank branch, and to the young people recruited as money mules. The defences are honest about their limits: banks monitor every payment flow with machine learning and scams remain hard to spot, the annoying are-you-sure questions are the engineered pause doing its job, and in the age of cheap deepfakes her closing instruction is simple: do not trust the face on the screen. This companion episode brings together Jessica Cath's conversation, entity by entity. What this episode covers:Ground in the day to dayThere are multiple different types of scammerAccount details send, me the moneyDone through money muelling when they're youngerStart and then it increases upwards quite quicklyYourself and banks must allow you to make paymentsGenerated images and videosTop three f red flags for scamming BEYOND network:BEYOND (the podcast)Elliott KingAleksandra King Agency