Fraud And Scam Speakers: Twelve To Book For Awareness That Lands

Fraud and scam speakers are booked for a job that no policy document does well, which is changing what a person does in the ten seconds after a convincing message arrives. The twelve below cover the people who were defrauded, the journalists who traced where the money went, and the specialists who work on it inside banks and retailers.

The numbers explain the demand. UK Finance put payment fraud losses at £1.28 billion across 2025, and within that, authorised push payment fraud, where the victim is manipulated into making the payment themselves, rose 19% to £576.4 million across 248,070 cases. Unauthorised fraud fell 5% over the same period. The Office for National Statistics estimated 4.5 million fraud incidents in the year to March 2026, with 7.8% of people affected.

Why book a fraud and scam speaker rather than run another training module?

Because the losses have moved to the part of the system that training modules reach least well. Technical controls are catching more unauthorised fraud, so criminals target the person instead, and a person who has been walked through a real manipulation by someone it happened to behaves differently from one who ticked a box.

Two thirds of APP fraud cases in the UK Finance data started online and 17% started on the phone, which means the exposure sits with anyone in your organisation holding a handset, not only with finance and IT. That widens the audience for this material from a security team to a full staff conference, and it changes what you want from the stage: a story people retell at home rather than a controls framework.

For the technical side of the same problem, see our guide to cybersecurity keynote speakers, and for regulated firms, risk management and compliance speakers for financial services.

Four speakers on how scams actually work

Cecilie Fjellhoy

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What a romance scam looks like from the inside, told by someone who lived it.

Cecilie Fjellhoy is an online safety advocate and the founder of a support organisation for fraud victims, and she hosts Netflix's Love Con Revenge. Her own case made her one of the most recognisable voices on romance and investment fraud anywhere.

The value on stage is the sequence. Audiences assume victims are careless, and an hour with someone who takes a room step by step through a manipulation built over months takes that assumption apart. It also does something a compliance briefing cannot, which is make people comfortable admitting it nearly happened to them. £6,000 to £10,000.

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Tracy Hall

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The manipulation tactics themselves, named and made recognisable.

Tracy Hall is an author and fraud prevention expert who works with organisations on spotting security weak points, recognising manipulation and building safeguards against AI-assisted scams. Her case features in the Who the Hell is Hamish? podcast, and she was named among LinkedIn's Top 20 Fraud Experts in 2025.

Where Fjellhoy gives the narrative, Hall gives the taxonomy: which pressure techniques are being used, how they are being automated, and what a team can practically put in place. That makes the two a strong pairing for a longer session, and Hall a good single booking for a workforce that handles payments or customer data. $6,000 to $10,000.

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Geoff White

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Where the money goes after the scam, traced by the reporter who followed it.

Geoff White is an investigative journalist and author whose BBC work and books track cybercrime and money laundering networks. He has delivered keynotes for Microsoft, HSBC and Mastercard across more than a dozen countries.

He is the booking when the audience needs to understand the industry behind the message, the scale of it, who runs it and how the proceeds move. Boards in particular respond to that, because it reframes fraud from a run of unlucky incidents into an organised commercial operation with your customers as the market. £6,000 to £10,000.

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Misha Glenny

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The economics of organised crime, from the author of McMafia.

Misha Glenny is an award-winning journalist and author of McMafia and DarkMarket, and works with governments and corporations on transnational crime networks and cyber threats.

This is the most strategic booking on the list. Glenny puts fraud inside the wider criminal economy, which suits an executive audience weighing where to invest, or an industry conference that wants a speaker with range beyond the immediate threat list. £11,000 to £25,000.

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Eight more fraud and scam speakers worth knowing

Matt Shea

Investigative journalist and documentary maker whose work for the BBC, Vice and Channel 4 has passed 150 million views, and who has reported from inside criminal organisations including the Albanian mafia and Colombian cartels. Book him for how online manipulation recruits people in the first place. £2,000 to £5,000.

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Ray Blake

Anti-financial crime professional and co-host of The Dark Money Files podcast, working with global banks on compliance and risk protocols. The specialist pick for an audience that already works in this field. £2,000 to £5,000.

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Karisse Hendrick

Chargeback and e-commerce fraud specialist who has advised Domino's, Etsy and Expedia on protecting revenue without blocking genuine customers. Book her for a retail or payments audience. Fees on enquiry.

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Bennett Arron

A comedian who had his identity stolen and turned it into the BAFTA-shortlisted How To Steal An Identity. The booking for an awareness slot on a long agenda, where a straight security session would lose the room. £2,000 to £5,000.

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Theresa Payton

The first female White House CIO, now working with Fortune 500 companies on AI security and digital resilience. Strongest on deepfake-enabled fraud and where the next wave of impersonation is heading. $26,000 to $50,000.

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Iona Bain

BBC Morning Live's resident money expert and Financial Journalist of the Year 2025. Good for a wellbeing or benefits day, where scam awareness sits alongside practical money guidance for staff. £6,000 to £10,000.

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Elliot Castro

A former fraudster who now advises organisations on risk, scam prevention and security culture. The view from the other side of the phone call, and the most direct answer to "how would someone actually get past our people".

Interested in booking Elliot? Get in touch with the PepTalk team.

Dominic Littlewood

Consumer protection expert and presenter of BBC programmes including Cowboy Builders and Fake Britain, working with organisations on fraud prevention and customer trust. A recognisable face for a public-facing or member-facing event.

Interested in booking Dominic? Get in touch with the PepTalk team.

How much do fraud and scam speakers cost?

From £2,000 to over £50,000, and this category sits lower than most. Matt Shea, Ray Blake and Bennett Arron are £2,000 to £5,000. Cecilie Fjellhoy, Geoff White and Iona Bain are £6,000 to £10,000, with Tracy Hall at $6,000 to $10,000. Misha Glenny is £11,000 to £25,000 and Theresa Payton is $26,000 to $50,000. Karisse Hendrick is priced on enquiry.

An all-staff awareness session with one of the £6,000 to £10,000 names costs less than a single mid-sized APP fraud loss, which is the comparison worth putting in front of whoever signs off the budget.

More names sit on our fraud speakers page, including specialists we have not featured here.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is a fraud victim's story appropriate for a corporate audience?

Yes, and it is usually the version that changes behaviour. Speakers who work in this space have shaped their material for workplace audiences and can adjust the personal detail to the room. Flag anything sensitive in your organisation at briefing stage and they will work around it.

Should we book this for staff or for customers?

Both work, and the framing differs. For staff, the focus is process and the moment someone is pressured into an exception. For customers or members, it is recognising the approach and knowing what to do next. Say which audience you have when you brief, since the same speaker will build a different session for each.

Do we need someone who covers AI and deepfakes?

If your organisation authorises payments or handles identity verification, it is worth having on the agenda. Voice cloning and synthetic video are already being used in impersonation attempts, and Theresa Payton and Tracy Hall both cover this ground directly.

Can a fraud speaker also run a workshop?

Most will, and it is where this topic earns its keep. A keynote raises attention, a follow-on workshop turns it into a checked process, such as how a payment request from a senior name gets verified. Ask about the combined format when you enquire, since it is often priced better than two separate bookings.

Tell us the audience, the format and the budget, and we'll come back with a shortlist. Send us a message via the chat and we'll take it from there. Remember, it's always a good time to get a PepTalk!