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FraudSociety simulates financial fraud to test prevention strategies

FraudSociety: A Generative Agent-Based Society for the Financial-Fraud Economy

Abstract: Financial fraud caused over \$15.9 billion in losses in the United States in 2025, according to the Federal Trade Commission~\citep{ftc2026databook}. Understanding such large-scale harm requires jointly modeling informational and financial dynamics. Yet existing simulators typically capture only one side of this interaction, leaving a gap in modeling how fraud unfolds in the real world. To bridge this gap, we introduce \textsc{FraudSociety}, the first LLM-agent-based simulator that jointly models these coupled dynamics. It integrates a dynamic social environment for information exposure and communication, persistent financial ledgers that preserve payment and loss histories, and a Need-Intent-Action architecture for civilian decision making. Fraudsters further adapt their communication and financial actions to individual interaction histories and ledger states, forming a closed feedback loop between the two dynamics. We validate \textsc{FraudSociety} across macro-level outcomes, micro-level behavior, and intervention effects. At the macro level, the simulated fraud outcomes closely match real-world patterns across multiple key statistics. At the micro level, it reproduces strong loss concentration, with the top 10\% of victimization records accounting for 81.1\% of total losses, consistent with Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre statistics~\citep{cafc2025annual}. Counter-fraud experiments further reveal variation across intervention strategies, with the best-performing personalized intervention reducing the repeat-payment rate from 49.4\% to 10.9\%. These results establish \textsc{FraudSociety} as both a high-fidelity simulator and a scalable testbed for evaluating anti-fraud strategies under diverse intervention conditions, thereby advancing research on financial fraud and its prevention.

Sat 24 OctArtificial IntelligenceComputers and Society
The gist
Financial fraud causes huge losses, but it's hard to fully understand how it happens because it involves how people share information and how money moves. The authors created FraudSociety, a computer simulation that models both social interactions and financial transactions together. This lets them mimic real-world fraud patterns and test how different anti-fraud efforts work. They found their simulation reflects real victim data and showed personalized interventions can greatly reduce repeat fraud losses.
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