Scam Fighter Awards
Global Anti-Scam Summit Europe 2026
Lisbon, Portugal | 9-10 June 2026
What are the GASA Scam Fighter Awards?
The Scam Fighter Awards at the Global Anti-Scam Summit Europe 2026 excellence in combating scams across prevention, detection, disruption and enforcement.
Bringing together leaders from across Europe and beyond, the awards highlight solutions that deliver measurable results and can be scaled across sectors and regions.
Recognising impactful efforts across policy, collaboration, technology, awareness and research.
Awareness or Education
Public campaigns, training initiatives or educational efforts that increase scam awareness and consumer resilience.
Investigation or Research
Analysis or research initiatives that uncover trends and provide insights to support prevention, detection and enforcement.
Best Awareness Campaign or Educational Programme

S.A.F.E. by Ayleen Charlotte
Nominated for its victim-centred fraud education programme, which equips professionals and first responders with practical tools to better support fraud victims.

UK Financial Conduct Authority
Nominated for its Firm Checker campaign, which encourages consumers to verify firms before investing and helps turn scam awareness into practical action.
Best Cross-Sector Collaboration

Cifas
Nominated for the International Fraud Data Standard, a framework designed to support fraud intelligence sharing across sectors and borders.

Stop Scams UK
Nominated for its Blocked SIMs initiative, which brings telecoms, banks and technology platforms together to disrupt SIM-enabled scam infrastructure.
Best Investigation or Research

Bitdefender
Nominated for the Bitdefender Global Scam Intelligence Report 2026, which uses real-world threat data to map scam activity across channels, regions and attack types.

Visa
Nominated for Visa Scam Disruption, an investigation that identified thousands of connected scam merchants and helped disrupt large-scale scam activity.
Best Policy or Regulatory Initiative

Cifas
Nominated for the International Fraud Data Standard, which proposes a scalable model for lawful, accountable and real-time fraud intelligence sharing.

Global Fraud Summit 2026
Nominated for bringing governments, law enforcement and industry together to strengthen international coordination against fraud.
Best Technological Solution

Charm Security
Nominated for its Agentic AI Workforce providing capabilities across fraud investigation, customer intervention, and intelligence gathering to identify emerging threats.

Salv
Nominated for Salv Bridge, a real-time intelligence-sharing platform that enables financial institutions to exchange fraud and financial crime information securely and lawfully.
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 Europe 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.

Angelique Miet
Policy Officer - Cybercrime Unit
European Commission

Edvardas Sileris
Head of European Cybercrime Centre (EC3)
Europol

John Kirwan
Head of Risk Containment, Trust and Safety
TikTok

Lynn van Meijgaard
Policy Advisor
Dutch Banking Association

Nick Stapleton
Television Presenter
BBC Studios

Thomas Rousson
Cybersecurity and Digital Life Protection Marketing Director
Orange