Bengaluru, March 27 -- Bureau, an AI-powered unified risk decisioning platform, has released the India Fraud Report 2026, revealing a sharp shift in how fraud is being executed across India's digital economy.

A key finding from the report highlights the growing dominance of mule networks, with 48 per cent of Indian enterprises identifying them as the most difficult fraud threat to detect and control, ahead of phishing, synthetic identities, account takeover, and social engineering (which came second with 33 per cent).

Designed to appear legitimate at every touchpoint, these networks distribute funds across large clusters of connected accounts, making them difficult to detect without cross-platform visibility.

With fraud losses surging ...