Hello FraudFighters 👋

It’s 2026, and you know what that means? That’s right, it’s Fraud Prediction Time! 🧨

If you have followed me for a while, you will know that I never make the predictions myself - Karisse Hendrick, Mary Ann Miller, and I work on them together.

But this year, we have a new secret compadre who helped! You will need to read the full blog to learn who it is!

2025 was the year that broke our trust.

It was the year fraud went "invisible." We knew AI would change everything. We didn't expect it to erase the line between real and fake so thoroughly and with such force.

Now here we are standing at the edge of 2026: The birth year of autonomous fraud attacks that will go beyond anything we have ever seen.

It will be a year with no brakes. The guardrails are gone now. So are the speed limits. We're all just passengers now. 💥

Check out our annual predictions by clicking here or the image below.

If you prefer to browse the predictions, here they are in one convenient place!

After 156 editions and close to 5,000 curated stories and features, I'm putting the FrankonFraud Weekly Newsletter on pause.

This wasn't an easy decision. But it's the right one for now.

I am not going anywhere, by the way, just returning my focus to FrankonFraud.com, the blog that I started back in 2016.

Instead of curating the week’s fraud news, I want to spend more time creating original content and delving deeper into the trends shaping our industry on the blog.

I will continue to send you updates on interesting stories and trends via this newsletter, but for now, the weekly curated news will stop.

Who knows, maybe I will start it again with a twist in the future. 🤷

When I started the weekly newsletter, I had no idea how much I would learn by combing and reading through hundreds of news articles and court cases every weekend. I think it became a bit of an addiction - trying to find great stories and sharing them.

The only problem is, I ended up spending all weekend doing it - and I want to spend more time with my family.

And yes, it was expensive - about $12,000 a year to keep it running between Deep Research AI tools, platform cost, and media subscriptions. If you’re curious, I created a P&L breakdown you can view here.

I could have done it much more cheaply, but I wanted to see whether AI could help me identify hidden stories and trends not covered elsewhere - it did!

But I’m not pausing the weekly news due to cost. This is a labor of love for me. ❤

I love fighting fraud and finding trends. Educating fraud fighters has become part of who I am.

To everyone who opened these emails week after week, who shared stories with their friends or colleagues, who reached out with tips and kind words - thank you. 🙏

Creating the weekly newsletter has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career.

It’s been an honor, fraud fighters. I salute you and all that you do 🫡.

See you on the blog ✌️

Frank