AI Spy

Join us in the world of financial crime prevention, where we delve into the powerful synergy of Artificial Intelligence and cutting-edge technology. This podcast brings expert insights, no-nonsense discussions, and deep dives into topics like Anti-Money Laundering, Payments Fraud, and more. Hosted casually and informatively, we invite A-listers from the industry to share their experience and learnings.

AI Spy is a technology podcast hosted by Anurag Mohapatra, with 34 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Anurag Mohapatra hosts AI Spy, a technology show with 34 episodes published.

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  Episode #3

  Vulnerability Management in the Age of AI

  Jun 9, 202630 minS4

  <p>The security community has been sounding alarms about AI infrastructure for two years. BadHost, a critical authentication bypass discovered in May 2026 inside one of the most widely used Python frameworks on the internet, is what that alarm sounds like when it goes off. Dan Fernandez returns to AI Spy to talk about what actually happened, why the official severity rating understates the real risk, and what the broader pattern of 40-plus CVEs against MCP implementations in 2026 alone tells us about how AI infrastructure is being built. This is not a technical deep-dive. It is a practitioner briefing on the...

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  Episode #2

  The Other End of the Wire

  Apr 6, 202632 minS4

  <p>Most of us in fraud prevention have never spoken to someone who has been inside a scam compound. Ling Li has. A Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne with a decade in law enforcement experience and field roles across the ICRC, UNHCR, and the University of Liverpool's Modern Slavery Research Centre, Ling co-authored SCAM: Inside Southeast Asia's Cybercrime Compounds — one of the most rigorous accounts of how these operations actually work. In this conversation, she traces the 30-year lineage of the industry from Taiwan to Fujian to militarized compounds across Cambodia and Myanmar, unpacks the victim-offender overlap that ma...

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  Forensic Cyberpsychology: How AI is changing crime and human behavior

  Feb 11, 202623 minS4

  <p>AI is changing more than workflows—it’s changing how we communicate, what we trust, and how criminals manipulate people. In this episode, I’m joined by James McDowell, Executive Director of the Cyber Crime Research Institute (CCRI) and an adjunct professor at American Military University, to unpack forensic cyber psychology: how human behavior shifts online, how “truth” gets distorted (deepfakes, social media personas), and why scam victimization is often about cognitive states and social engineering, not intelligence.</p><p>We talk through the Eliza Effect (why people humanize chatbots), automation bias (over-trusting systems), and the duality of technology—how the same...

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  Episode #8

  Investigating Modern Fraud: A Law Enforcement Perspective

  Dec 19, 202534 minS3

  <p>What does financial crime really look like from the law enforcement side?</p><p>In this episode, Victoria Frosch Bowes joins us to share a frontline view of modern fraud investigations — from her time as a Detective Constable working complex fraud cases, to her current role in securities enforcement.</p><p>We discuss how Victoria found her way into financial crime, what makes fraud cases uniquely challenging for law enforcement, and why collaboration between police, banks, and technology providers often breaks down in practice.</p><p>The conversation covers:</p><p>Why financial crime investigations are more complex than ma...

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  Episode #7

  The Psychology of Scams

  Dec 11, 202523 minS3

  <p>In this episode, Anurag sits down with Whistine Chai to explore the human side of scams. Whistine brings more than 17 years of experience in clinical, forensic, and industrial-organizational psychology, along with extensive field work in Singapore focused on understanding victims and offenders. Her work blends behavioral science and practical investigation, giving her a unique lens on how scams actually unfold in real life.</p><p>The conversation begins with her path into forensic and behavioral psychology and the early lessons she learned while working on scam cases in Singapore. She shares how rotations and field work shaped her perspective...

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