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December 2026 (Virtual): The New Face of Fraud: Deepfakes, Agentic AI, and the Next Wave of Social Engineering

  • Friday, December 11, 2026
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Zoom

Registration

  • For registrants that aren't a member of the Southwest Ohio Chapter of the ACFE and wish to attend the class virtually in Zoom.

    Attendance links will be emailed to the registrant's email the day before the event.
  • For members of the Southwest Ohio Chapter of the ACFE who wish to attend the class virtually in Zoom.

    Attendance links will be emailed to the registrant's email the day before the event.
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Meeting Time Note: This meeting will be held at 10am Eastern (earlier than normal meetings)

Speakers: 
Ryan Praskovich - Cyber Fraud Product Owner, Nationwide
Zack Nagaich - Principal Attack and Penetration Tester, Nationwide

Topic: The New Face of Fraud: Deepfakes, Agentic AI, and the Next Wave of Social Engineering

Description:

AI is making impersonation easier to scale, with voice and video deepfakes and agentic AI creating new ways to exploit identity checks, websites, and social-engineering opportunities to defraud individuals and organizations. This session helps ACFE attendees recognize these emerging tactics and red flags, understand where people and processes may be vulnerable, and consider layered verification and controls.


CPE: 1 hour

CPE credits are based on a 50-minute hour. CPE is offered through the ACFE as well as the Accountancy Board of Ohio (sponsor number CPE.00467). Attendees must attend 50 minutes of the meeting and answer 3 polling questions during the meeting to validate attendance. 

Learning Objectives: 

Promotion of improved fraud detection and deterrence and through expansion of knowledge in relation to the session's topic.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker Bios: 

Ryan Praskovich is a Senior Consultant at Nationwide and a product owner focused on the Fraud Platform. He works to strengthen enterprise fraud detection, investigation, data integration, and intelligence sharing, while developing controls for emerging threats such as agentic AI. His areas of focus include cyber fraud, telephony fraud, and translating threat intelligence into practical security capabilities.

Zack Nagaich is a Senior Consultant at Nationwide and technical lead for the Attack and Penetration team. He has almost a decade of experience focusing on offensive security, penetration testing, and threat emulation. His work examines how attackers use emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, to scale and adapt their techniques. For this presentation, Zack brings a practitioner’s perspective on AI-enabled attacks and what fraud, security, and risk teams can do to recognize and respond.

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