Scam Fighter Awards name winners at Global Anti-Scam Summit

The Global Anti-Scam Alliance named its Scam Fighter Award winners at the Global Anti-Scam Summit America 2026 in San Francisco, and the categories say something about where anti-scam work actually happens now.

Four categories: public education, cross-sector collaboration, investigation and research, and technological solutions. Not one job, four.

An independent jury drew from consumer protection, law enforcement, financial services, telecommunications and cybersecurity. Every entry was judged on impact, innovation and scalability.

The shortlist alone showed the range of current work: consumer education, threat intelligence, research, collaborative disruption, deepfake detection. Scams get fought earlier than the moment someone clicks a link, by people tracing money and building detection tools long before that point.

Worth knowing who is doing that work, because most of it happens without recognition until an event like this one puts a name to it.

Huge congratulations to the award recipients:

Scam Fighter Awards Winners

Best Awareness Campaign or Educational Programme: @Bitdefender - Nominated for Scam Radar, which uses real-time threat intelligence to identify emerging scam waves and warn consumers with examples and practical guidance before they are targeted.

Best Cross-Sector Collaboration: @Static Technologies - Nominated for its collaborative work using Avengyr to detect and disrupt malicious infrastructure before customers are compromised, while providing actionable intelligence to organisations fighting fraud. Static is also listed as a participant in the New Zealand Anti-Scam Alliance.

Best Investigation or Research: @International Justice Mission - Nominated for research investigating the connection between forced scamming and financially motivated sextortion of children, linking hundreds of reported cases to scam compounds in Southeast Asia.

Best Technological Solution: @Resemble AI - Nominated for DETECT-World, a deepfake detection system designed to identify AI-generated and manipulated images and video by analysing physical inconsistencies and synthetic-media signatures.

Scam Fighter Awards Runner-ups

Best Awareness Campaign or Educational Programme: @Trilogy Media - Nominated for its scam-awareness content, which uses investigations, real-world scammer confrontations and law enforcement collaborations to help millions of viewers recognise and resist scams.

Best Cross-Sector Collaboration: ScamAdviser - Nominated for its cross-sector scam prevention network, working with governments, businesses and NGOs to provide real-time scam verification, reporting and warnings across more than 17 countries and regions.

Best Investigation or Research: @Tunic Pay - Nominated for its work on fraud intelligence and data sharing, using payment data to better understand scam risk and strengthen fraud prevention across the financial sector.

Best Technological Solution: Proxyware - Nominated for technology designed to protect users from online scams and malicious activity encountered during everyday browsing.

Thanks for all you are doing in the fight against scams.

https://gasa.org/knowledge-base/blog/meet-the-winners-scam-fighter-awards-at-the-global-anti-scam-summit-america-2026