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Fraud prevention from people who work the cases.
IAFCI Presents... The Protectors brings financial crime investigators, cyber specialists, fraud educators, and live-event guests into direct, practical conversations. It treats scams as real-world problems, from AI voice cloning and insider risk to romance fraud, sports scandals, and sextortion.
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IAFCI Presents... The Protectors is a fraud, financial crime, and cybersecurity show with a strong practitioner backbone. It sounds less like a studio lecture than a room full of investigators and specialists talking through what actually happens. Mark Solomon and Michael Carroll usually set the table with IAFCI news, conference energy, and a bit of weather or colleague banter. Then the show gets down to the problem. AI voice cloning becomes a question of how little audio a criminal needs. Deepfake interviews become a warning about trust, hiring, and shrinking detection clues. Insider risk is treated through concrete behavior, such as thumb drives, customer records, public computers, and personal devices touching sensitive systems. The show keeps returning to the same useful point: criminals exploit people, process gaps, and moments of confusion. It covers romance scams without treating victims as foolish. Bernie’s return gives that subject a survivor’s angle, while Cassandra O’Hara adds the mental health context around vulnerability and manipulation. Other episodes stretch the fraud lens into sports scandals, blessing scams, and the collaboration needed between law enforcement, banking, retail, and fraud educators. Live recordings add a conference-floor looseness, with audience energy and quick handoffs shaping the pace. The tone can be warm and funny. It can also turn grave fast. Paul Raffile’s discussion of sextortion, for example, puts the psychological pressure and potential harm in stark terms. Kaitlyn Kent’s appearance highlights why cross-agency relationships matter when a threat needs a quick response. Audrey Moy’s episode brings community-facing fraud education into focus through patterns, customer behavior, and money movement. The show does not try to make crime glamorous. It tries to make warning signs legible. For listeners in financial institutions, investigations, cyber roles, victim advocacy, or fraud education, that practicality is the main draw. The banter keeps it accessible, but the cases give it weight.
Made for: Best for fraud investigators, cybersecurity teams, financial institution staff, law enforcement partners, victim advocates, and curious listeners who want practical scam awareness grounded in real cases.
What sets it apart: Its edge is the IAFCI training-room perspective: guests are treated as working practitioners, and technical threats are translated into plain scenarios that people can recognize and act on.
From ATM Skimming to Human Trafficking, The Protectors Podcast takes you inside the minds of criminals from around the world with leading experts and the investigators who put them behind bars. Presented by the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators (IAFCI), and hosted by International President Mark Solomon and Chairman of the Board Michael Carroll. The Protectors is a bi-weekly podcast that aims to educate consumers on the fraud, financial, and cybercriminal activities that are happening every second of every day. Don’t become the next victim. The host's and guest's opinions are their own and do not reflect those of mana...
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Digital fraud becomes legible through victim-focused conversations about insecure systems, impersonation, insider access, and coordinated response.
IAFCI Presents... The Protectors follows fraud from the transaction screen back to the people, devices, and institutional gaps that let it happen.
A Costco gold bar stops being a gag when you hear who's coming to collect it.
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A practical fraud-prevention conversation about insider risk, weak access habits, and the business fallout they can trigger.
The IAFCI-backed The Protectors treats fraud prevention like practical shop talk, not a lecture. It moves from AI voice and video impersonation to a contractor case built around customer data, thumb drives, public computers, and unsecured networks, then keeps circling back to…
A tight warning about AI fraud, with voices and faces that are easier to fake than they should be.
AI fraud is the main warning here, and the hosts keep it grounded with concrete examples of voice cloning and live deepfake overlays. The strongest point is the reminder that very little audio can be enough to build a convincing clone, which makes the threat feel immediate…
A live conference episode about fraud response, where banking, retail, and law enforcement stay aligned enough to act fast.
This episode takes a practical look at fraud response, and it works best when it shows how banking, retail, local law enforcement, and the U.S. Marshals can move on the same problem instead of staying in their own lanes.
A warm milestone check-in that folds protection work into a clear sense of community.
Episode 100 treats The Protectors Podcast as a milestone for Mark Solomon, Michael Carroll, the IAFCI, and the listeners who have sent in stories and advice over the years.
A practical fraud conversation centered on victims, red flags, and real-world scam tactics.
This live summit conversation treats fraud as a human problem first. It keeps the victim's view at the center, and Mark Solomon and Mike Carroll stay close to frontline experience as they move from elder exploitation to impersonation scams that pressure people into handing over…
Technology's mechanisms, power's consequences.
Dave, Joe, and Maria break down phishing kits, deepfakes, and social-engineering scams weekly.
Michael Perez, founder of Miklo, describes how at age 20 in 2006 he signed a medical supply company over to a Medicare fraud scheme that billed $3.2 million and led to a 24-month federal sentence.
Mike Carroll and Mark Solomon open with a warning.
Mark Solomon and Mike Carroll sit down with a guest to talk about AI fraud.
This episode features an interview with Dr.
This episode focuses on romance scams, featuring a survivor named Bernie and discussing the challenges of dating and fraud prevention.
This episode discusses the ongoing investigation into the Laura Kowal case and advocacy for victims, while also promoting upcoming events from the International Association of Financial Crime Investigators.
The episode is recorded live from the 2025 annual conference in Oklahoma City.
This episode features an interview with a retired investigator from the San Francisco DA's office and AARP Fraud Watch Network volunteer, discussing fraud prevention and scams at a training conference.
This episode discusses the psychological impact of sextortion on teenagers, using a case study of Brayden Marcus, and is presented by the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators at their Cyber Fraud Summit.
Episode 100 is presented as a big milestone for The Protectors Podcast.
The Protectors goes live from the TIAA 10th annual Fraud Summit in Charlotte.
This episode features an interview with Kirby Plessis, an expert in OSINT and fraud investigation, discussing how to detect and prevent scams by understanding human vulnerabilities and leveraging intelligence techniques.
The hosts of The Protectors Podcast reflect on three years of the show, discuss plans for 2025 including listener impact stories and upcoming expert interviews, and emphasize their mission to prevent financial crimes.