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Imagine falling in love with someone who doesn't exist. 💔 You share your secrets, you make plans for the future, you trust them completely. Meanwhile, someone on the other side of the screen is following a script designed to make you fall in love, and eventually hand over your money. That's the reality of romance fraud. And now, thanks to AI, deepfakes, and face-swapping technology, even a video call isn't necessarily proof that someone is real. In our latest episode of What The Fraud? podcast, Vicky Baker, Anna Rowe, and Simon Newman unpack the psychology, technology, and organized crime behind romance scams. Watch now:

🏆 We’re in the Top 5, according to the Product Marketing Alliance! Sumsub has been named one of the Top 5 Product Marketing Teams of the Year at the Product Marketing Awards 2026. Turning a complex, ever-evolving product ecosystem into clear positioning, compelling stories, and successful go-to-market strategies takes serious expertise. A big shoutout to our incredible Product Marketing team for their strategic thinking, deep product knowledge, and dedication to driving real business impact. Proud to be recognized alongside some of the best teams in product marketing! #PMA @PMMalliance

Who’s moving digital trust forward? Help us put them in the spotlight. On November 5, Sumsub Multiverse returns to London, and this year, we’re introducing our first-ever Trust Forward Awards! 🌟 Across four categories, we’re celebrating the people and companies raising the bar in verification, compliance, fraud prevention, and digital trust. Now it’s your turn: meet the nominees, pick your favourites, and cast your vote. Voting closes November 4 at 12 PM UK time. Use your work email to have your say:

RT @ForbesTechCncl: Building An Age-Aware Internet Without Blanket Bans Written by Andrew Sever of @sumsub

Your AI agent can pay an invoice. Who decides how much it can spend, who it can pay, and when a human needs to step in? On stage at #Money2020USA in Las Vegas, our Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer Peter Sever outlined three foundations for AI agent trust: identity, authorization and traceability. Businesses need to know which agent is acting, what it’s allowed to do, and who’s accountable for its actions. We also introduced Sumsub’s Know Your Agent (KYA) Module for MCP. It checks agent requests against the rules a business sets. Routine actions go through; sensitive ones wait for human approval. @money2020

Last night in Las Vegas, Sumsub won #TheMoneyAwards at @money2020 in the AML, Identity amp; KYC in Payments category! We’re very proud of this one. It’s a win for our whole team and for the customers who grow with us. The US is an incredibly competitive market, home to some of the world's most established and respected players in our industry. Being recognized alongside them, and coming out on top, makes this win especially meaningful. A huge thank you to our team, our customers, and the judges for this recognition.

Some conversations are just better had in person. Especially when they’re about something as complex as romance fraud 💞. The Online Dating and Discovery Association Annual Conference in London brought together people from across the online dating industry to share experiences, challenge perspectives, and figure out how we can make dating safer for everyone. Our Head of Government Relations Kat Cloud moderated a panel with the City of London Police, LoveSaid, and FreeDating, while Carmen Maria Miller hosted a hands-on workshop where attendees explored real fraud red flags and worked on practical ways to tackle them. A big thank you to ODDA and everyone who brought their insights, questions, and ideas to the table.

Understanding how criminals build trust helps explain what keeps their networks together, and what makes them so difficult to leave. Episode 4 of our #TrustForward podcast explores the rules and incentives that help organised crime survive. Host and anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota is joined by: • Rebecca Simon, pirate historian and author, on crews that agreed on pay, injury compensation and even voting out their captain. • Federico Varese, criminologist and Oxford professor, on how the Mafia enforces deals when courts aren’t an option—and makes betrayal costly. • Professor Sophie Scott, cognitive neuroscientist at UCL, on why painful tests of belonging can bind people to dangerous groups. You’ll come away with three questions to ask about any system of trust: Who enforces the rules? Who benefits? And can people walk away? 🎧 Listen to episode 4:

RT @MerkleScience: 🇸🇬 That’s a wrap on Merkle Meet Singapore. Thank you to everyone who joined us during Token2049 for an afternoon on MAS vs. MiCA, stablecoins reshaping APAC payments, RWA tokenization, and crypto crime across the region. Huge thanks to @sumsub, Drew & Napier, @movantis_global, @utexocom, and @AleoHQ, and to every speaker and attendee who made the day count.

RT @CoinGapeMedia: Spotlighting the Best from the Global Onchain Awards 2026 🏆 Recognising @Sumsub, the winner of “𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.” A remarkable achievement that reflects #Sumsub’s continued efforts in strengthening #compliance, identity #verification, and #risk management across the evolving digital asset ecosystem. 👏 Celebrating the innovators and industry leaders shaping the future of onchain finance and digital assets.

TOKEN2049 Singapore completely drained us! As always, an incredible experience and the friendliest people. ❤️‍🔥 #TOKEN2049

Yoooo, day one at @token2049 in Singapore flew by! Time to get some proper rest, see you tomorrow! #TOKEN2049

Big news for #WhatTheFraudPodcast 🎙️ It has been nominated for a @lovieawards in the Business category! We’ve talked scams, fraud, investigations, and all the wild ways bad actors try to outsmart the system, and now What The Fraud? needs your vote. If you’ve ever listened, learned something new, or simply thought “what the fraud?!” along with us, this is your chance to support the show. Help us by voting before Thursday, 15 October! #LovieAwards

What does a crackdown mean if you’re still trapped inside? Watch the full investigation 📢 One of the voices in this film comes from inside a scam compound. A person held against their will, forced to scam others, still waiting for a way out. Their story is why we need to keep paying attention. In our latest investigation, Erin West travels along the Thai–Myanmar border to uncover what happens after the crackdowns, and what it takes to help people get out. Please watch, like and share this investigation. Help it reach the embassies and authorities who can help get people to safety. The people still inside need the world to keep watching and to act.

Scammers have drained around $2 million in Ether from users who believed they were interacting with GIWA. 💸 According to a reconstruction by decentralized exchange DYORSWAP, a fraudulent bridge posing as GIWA’s mainnet received about 767.65 ETH from 1,335 addresses. The attackers later drained 766.25 ETH from the bridge. The fake network was built to resemble the infrastructure expected for GIWA, including an RPC endpoint, a cross-chain bridge, and a blockchain identifier. #DYORSWAP initially treated it as GIWA’s mainnet before determining that the network was fraudulent. GIWA confirmed that its mainnet is not currently live and warned users that purported mainnet connection details circulating online were false. GIWA is being developed by Dunamu, the operator of South Korean crypto exchange Upbit. Its publicly available network is currently the GIWA Sepolia testnet, which uses test assets rather than real funds. DYORSWAP said its own contracts were not compromised and that it is tracing the bridge deployer, funding sources, suspected test wallets, and the addresses that received the stolen ETH. The exchange has also used its own funds to compensate affected users, paying out more than 200 ETH so far.

We made The Money Awards 2026 shortlist 🏆 Hundreds of entries. 94 sub-categories. 40+ industry heavyweights on the jury. And Sumsub is officially among the finalists in Payments. The award recognizes companies shaping the future of financial services through innovation and real-world impact, so we’re very glad to see our work recognized alongside some of the biggest names in the industry. See you at @money2020 in Vegas this October!

The Travel Rule sounds simple until you have to make it work across different protocols, jurisdictions and wallet types. For @VALRdotcom, Sumsub helps automate much of that day-to-day compliance workflow, including counterparty identification, sanctions screening, wallet risk signals and transaction monitoring. Watch the full case study here 🔗