Business function

AI use cases for fraud prevention

Detecting, stopping and investigating fraud and scams against customers and the organization.

Use cases
17
Deployments
97
Organizations
89
Outcome disclosed
67%

17 Fraud prevention use cases

89 organizations in 22 countries run these use cases in public. 67% of those 97 deployments disclose a measurable outcome.

BankingPayments and cards

AI agent for card dispute intake

Card dispute intake is a customer facing AI agent that finds a disputed card transaction and separates suspected fraud from merchant disputes and simple confusion. It explains the customer's rights and timelines, collects the details and evidence the rules require, and opens a correctly classified dispute case for the operations team.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Supervised agent
BankingPayments and cards

AI agent for fraud alert confirmation with cardholders

AI fraud alert confirmation is a customer facing AI agent that contacts a cardholder when a fraud engine flags a card transaction, verifies them and asks if they made it. It reaches them in the channel they actually respond to and acts on the answer: releasing the block so a retry succeeds, or freezing the card and starting the fraud claim.

Deployments
6 public, best grade B
Reported fraud loss reduction
76%
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, organization claim
BankingPayments and cards

AI agent for fraud alert triage

AI fraud alert triage is an AI agent that works a fraud alert queue behind the scenes as an analyst's first pass, without contacting the customer. It enriches each alert with customer, device and payment context, closes clear false positives under documented rules, merges duplicates, and routes genuine risk to an analyst with a drafted rationale.

Deployments
3 public, best grade C
Reported false positive reduction
at least 50%
Kinecta Federal Credit Union, vendor claim
BankingPayments and cards

AI for application and identity fraud detection

Application and identity fraud detection is AI that checks incoming account and loan applications for banks and lenders to catch forgery and fraud rings. It analyses documents, device and application data across the whole queue and cross checks against bureau and official sources to flag forged or AI generated documents, synthetic and stolen identities, and coordinated rings.

Deployments
8 public, best grade B
Reported detection improvement
2.5x
Department for Work and Pensions, organization claim
Government and public sector

AI for benefit fraud and error detection in social security

Benefit fraud and error detection uses risk models that help a social security or benefits agency decide which claims, payments and recipients to check for fraud or error. Caseworkers then verify the riskiest cases first, while every decision on entitlement stays with a person and the model is tested for fairness before and during use.

Deployments
5 public, best grade B
Reported detection improvement
2.5x
Department for Work and Pensions, organization claim
Payments and cardsBanking

AI for chargeback and representment operations

AI chargeback and representment is AI that runs the dispute engine room for issuers, acquirers and merchants, mapping each dispute to the network reason code. It gathers the matching evidence, assembles a network compliant chargeback or representment package, drafts the rebuttal, tracks every deadline and processes pre dispute alerts so a refund can be issued before a chargeback lands.

Deployments
10 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Supervised agent
Government and public sectorLogistics and transportation

AI for customs risk targeting, container selection and valuation checks

AI customs risk targeting and container selection is machine learning that scores every import or export declaration for the risk it carries contraband, is misclassified or is undervalued. A customs administration sends physical inspection, scanning and detailed review only to the small share of containers, vehicles and parcels that need it; the rest clear without an officer touching them, and an officer reviews and acts on every high risk alert.

Deployments
2 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Supervised agent
HealthcareInsurance

AI for healthcare claims fraud, waste and abuse detection

AI for healthcare claims fraud, waste and abuse detection reads healthcare claims and provider billing patterns to flag fraud, waste and abuse for a payment integrity investigator. It checks claims before or shortly after payment and sends every flag with its reasons to the investigator, while a narrow set of clear rule violations can be denied automatically before payment.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Assist
Insurance

AI for insurance claims fraud detection

Claims fraud detection is AI that scores every insurance claim for fraud from first notice of loss onwards, combining claim, policy, document, image and network data. It finds suspicious claims, organised rings and inflated losses, and sends each alert with its reasons to a claims handler or special investigations unit for review.

Deployments
12 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Assist
Payments and cardsTechnology and software

AI for merchant underwriting and risk monitoring

AI merchant underwriting and risk monitoring helps acquirers, payment facilitators and software platforms with embedded payments decide which merchants to accept and on what terms, and watch for risk afterward. It checks what a business really sells and how risky it is at onboarding, then watches every active merchant for changes in behaviour, ranking the few that need an analyst so fraud, prohibited trade and credit losses are caught early.

Deployments
8 public, best grade B
Reported alert volume reduction
about 89%
Weave Communications, vendor claim
BankingPayments and cards

AI for money mule account and network detection

AI mule network detection uses graph and behavioural machine learning to find money mule accounts and the networks around them, for investigators. These include circular flows, layering chains and clusters of newly linked accounts, and the AI supports investigators in tracing scam proceeds and restricting accounts before the money is gone.

Deployments
6 public, best grade B
Reported false positive reduction
4x
bunq, vendor claim
Government and public sector

AI for tax compliance risk scoring and audit selection

Tax compliance risk scoring is AI that scores tax returns, taxpayers and transactions for the risk of error, underreporting or fraud, for a tax administration. It directs audit and compliance capacity to the highest risk cases, while an officer decides every compliance action and the selection itself is monitored for fairness.

Deployments
6 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Assist
Telecommunications

AI for telecom fraud detection (SIM swap, IRSF and Wangiri)

Telecom fraud detection is AI that protects an operator's network, revenue and numbers from fraud by watching call, messaging, roaming and account activity. It detects SIM swap and port out takeovers, international revenue share fraud (IRSF) and Wangiri one ring scams, blocks or flags them in real time, and shares risk signals with banks and other businesses that rely on the phone number for security. Scam calls aimed at subscribers are handled by call blocking.

Deployments
4 public, best grade B
Reported detection improvement
30%
Vodafone, organization claim
Retail and ecommerce

AI order fraud screening for ecommerce checkout

AI order fraud screening decides, at the moment an online order is placed, whether to accept it, hold it for review or decline it, for an online retailer or marketplace. It draws on the buyer's device, behaviour, identity and order history, so genuine orders are approved quickly and fraudulent ones are stopped before they ship, often backed by a vendor guarantee against the chargebacks that slip through.

Deployments
9 public, best grade C
Reported revenue uplift
6%
Mango, vendor claim
BankingPayments and cards

AI scam intervention for instant payments

Scam payment interception is AI that talks to a customer who is about to authorise an instant payment that looks like a scam. It combines the payee check and the risk score, asks targeted questions about the payment in plain language, explains the specific scam pattern, and holds, delays or escalates the payment to a human specialist when the risk stays high. Unlike fraud scoring, which stops payments the customer did not make, it protects customers from payments they are being manipulated into making.

Deployments
7 public, best grade B
Median fraud loss reduction
40%
3 deployments
Telecommunications

AI spam and scam call blocking for mobile and landline subscribers

Spam and scam call blocking is AI in the operator's network that protects subscribers from unwanted calls by analysing incoming calls in real time. It blocks known fraudulent calls and labels suspected scam, spam and spoofed calls on the customer's screen before they answer, so subscribers can decide whether to pick up. Fraud against the operator itself, such as SIM swap or revenue share fraud, is a separate use case.

Deployments
6 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Autonomous
BankingPayments and cards

Real time fraud scoring for card and instant payments

Real time fraud scoring is machine learning that decides in milliseconds how likely each card authorization and account to account payment is to be fraudulent, so a bank can act. It works without any conversation, combining behavioural, device and network signals, so the bank can approve, challenge or block a payment before the money leaves. Working the resulting alerts and talking to the customer about them are separate use cases.

Deployments
11 public, best grade B
Median fraud loss reduction
30%
3 deployments

What the evidence says

Computed from the 97 public deployments behind these use cases. Numbers update with every checked record.

Benchmarks with at least 3 pooled values

Benchmarks across Fraud prevention use cases
KPIMedianReported rangeData pointsClaimed by
Fraud loss reduction40%
30% to 82%
54 organization, 1 vendor
False positive reduction50%
40% to 75%
41 organization, 3 vendor
Detection improvement135%
30% to 300%
31 organization, 2 vendor
Deployments by stage
  • Announced
    5
  • Pilot
    5
  • Production
    62
  • Scaled
    24
  • Paused or rolled back
    1
Public deployments by region
  • North America
    33
  • Europe
    30
  • Asia Pacific
    19
  • Global
    7
  • Africa
    5
  • Middle East
    2
  • Latin America
    1

Organizations with a public deployment

  • ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, NAB, Suncorp Bank and Westpac (BioCatch Trust Australia)
  • AXA Switzerland
  • Absa Group
  • Adorama
  • Airwallex
  • Assurance Maladie (Caisse nationale de l'Assurance Maladie, CNAM)
  • Assurant
  • Autura
  • BCU
  • BT Group
  • Barclays
  • Belastingdienst
  • Bell Canada
  • Bharti Airtel
  • BigPay
  • Bluevine
  • CNG Holdings
  • Capital One
  • Capitec Bank
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
  • Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs
  • Cherry Technologies
  • Close Brothers Motor Finance
  • Coast
  • Commonwealth Bank of Australia
  • Covéa
  • Cymbiotika
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Fanatics
  • GNP Seguros
  • Gemeente Rotterdam
  • General Insurance Association of Singapore
  • GitHub
  • Gjensidige
  • HM Revenue and Customs
  • Harry's
  • HexClad
  • Highmark Inc.
  • Hot Topic
  • Ignition
  • Indian Customs (Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs)
  • Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore
  • Internal Revenue Service
  • Jerome's Furniture
  • Jubilee Holdings
  • Kinecta Federal Credit Union
  • Klarna
  • Lemonade
  • Lili
  • Macquarie Bank
  • Mango
  • Mastercard
  • N26
  • NatWest Group
  • National Australia Bank
  • OVO
  • Obvi
  • Old Mutual General Insurance
  • Pay.UK
  • Payoneer
  • Philips
  • Phorest
  • Rainbow Shops
  • Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (Reserve Bank of India)
  • Revolut
  • SEB
  • Shelter Insurance
  • Smallpdf
  • South African Revenue Service
  • Starling Bank
  • Stripe
  • Structube
  • Tawuniya (Company for Cooperative Insurance)
  • Tekmetric
  • Telstra
  • The Beard Club
  • Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance
  • U.S. Customs and Border Protection
  • U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service
  • Uitvoeringsinstituut Werknemersverzekeringen (UWV)
  • Virgin Media O2
  • Visa
  • Vodafone
  • Weave Communications
  • Westpac
  • Wordtune (AI21 Labs)
  • Yves Rocher
  • bunq
  • Česká spořitelna