San Francisco – September 22, 2026 -- ScamAdviser's Watchmen platform won the Scam Fighter Award at the Global Anti-Scam Summit (GASS) America 2026, organized by the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA) in San Francisco, for its role in cutting fraud detection-to-takedown times from weeks to under 8 hours.
Watchmen deployments contributed to a 38% drop in investment scam financial losses
In deployments with financial regulators, law enforcement agencies, and municipal governments, Watchmen demonstrated national-level impact, including a 38% reduction in the share of investment scam financial losses. The system uses multi-layered filtering, expert rule engines, and Large Language Model (LLM) semantic analysis to monitor corporate communication channels and social media platforms for brand impersonation, triggering automated takedown mechanisms once threats are confirmed.
ScamAdviser CEO Aaron Chiou warns AI agents are becoming primary fraud targets
At the summit, ScamAdviser CEO Aaron Chiou led a panel titled "The Agent Is the New Victim – From Social Engineering to Agent Engineering," featuring experts from Google, Gen, AIM Intelligence, and Adyen. Panelists said scammers are shifting tactics from targeting human eyes to targeting the decision logic of autonomous AI agents used by consumers to compare products and complete transactions.
"Static prompts defined before deployment are simply no longer enough against modern edge-case exploits," Chiou said, adding that the industry needs active, real-time runtime safeguards that verify every link, site, and transaction before an AI agent acts.
ScamAdviser launches AgentLooker.ai to guard AI agents against spoofed storefronts
ScamAdviser introduced AgentLooker.ai, a real-time security tool designed to prevent AI agents from being scammed during dynamic web interactions, including exposure to hidden malicious code and spoofed online storefronts built to hijack AI logic. The company and its solution partners said they are continuously tracking evolving threat patterns to keep security guardrails ahead of bad actors targeting autonomous commerce.