Scam Fighter Awards
Global Anti-Scam Summit America 2026
San Francisco, CA, USA | 2-3 September 2026
What are the GASA Scam Fighter Awards?
The Scam Fighter Awards at the Global Anti-Scam Summit America 2026 recognize excellence in combating scams across prevention, detection, disruption and enforcement.
Bringing together leaders from across North America and beyond, the awards highlight solutions that deliver measurable results and can be scaled across sectors and regions.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 Technological Solution
Proxyware
Nominated for technology designed to protect users from online scams and malicious activity encountered during everyday browsing.
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.
Evaluation Criteria
All nominations are reviewed by an independent jury composed of senior representatives from government or regulatory bodies, law enforcement, financial services, telecommunications, digital platforms, consumer protection organisations and cybersecurity experts.
Shortlisted nominees may be invited to present their initiatives at the Global Anti-Scam Summit America 2026. Winners are determined through jury evaluation and, where applicable, audience participation.
Impact
Ability to increase scam costs, reduce success rates or improve enforcement outcomes.
Innovation
Level of originality, forward-thinking approach and effectiveness of the solution or initiative.
Scalability
Potential for adoption across sectors, countries or regions, and the extent to which others can replicate or learn from the initiative.
Brian Cute
CEO
Global Cyber Alliance
Justen Davis
Somos
Laureen Kapin
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Matt Noyes
Cyber Policy & Strategy Director
U.S. Secret Service Office of Investigations
Melissa Lanning
Executive Director
BBB Institute for Marketplace Trust
Paul Benda
American Bankers Association
Organisations are invited to submit their initiatives for consideration, for the Awards at upcoming GASA events.
Nominations for the Scam Fighter Awards at the Global Anti-Scam Summit America 2026 are now closed. However, you can still submit a nomination for consideration at future events.