Alex Wood Speaker News

Alex Wood is a speaker on Fraud, Cybercrime and Social Engineering.

After his music career was cut short due to RSI, faced with mounting debts and no source of income, his criminal career began. His life spiralled out of control, culminating in several years spent in prison for a number of dishonesty offences – everything from impersonating the 13th Duke of Marlborough to committing multi-million pound cyber-crime.

Since his release from jail in early 2022 Alexander has turned his life around and become an immensely powerful force in the Counter Fraud profession.  In addition to his speaking work, Alex has been working on a BBC radio show and writing a number of recent articles – we wanted to take this opportunity to provide with some of these exciting updates:

TV & RADIO

Alex is one of the resident experts on BBC Radio 4s Scam Secrets.  On the show Alex appears alongside Shari Vahl, who has investigated fraud for the BBC for 20 years, and criminologist and forensic linguist, Dr Elisabeth Carter, to dissect the shadiest techniques criminals use to steal your cash.  In each episode, they dig deep into a different scam, with first-hand accounts from the people targeted, forensic analysis of the techniques and mind games being used – and even secret recordings of the scammers themselves.

Alex has also recently been interviewed on Good Morning Britain and ITV’s This Morning.

WRITTEN ARTICLES

Alex has featured in a number of printed interviews including recently in the Sun – https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/36235983/scam-secrets-tech-targets-kids-calls/

As well as in the Sunday Times – ‘I stole £1.2m in a 40-minute call — then blew it all in Harrods’

Alex has also recently worked with Flutter Entertainment into an investigation into the UK’s gambling black market and helped to find “big questions” for the authorities to answer over the ease with which it is possible to access illegal operators.

SPEAKING WORK

In the last two years Alex has given keynote speeches at dozens of conferences all across the world.  Sample speech titles / topics include:

• From Her Majesty’s Palaces to Her Majesty’s Prisons 
• Combatting Fraud by Eliminating Mule Accounts:  How can we Detect and Close Mule Accounts prior to a Fraudulent Event?
• Future Threats for Generative AI:  An Opportunity for Bad Actors?
• Underworld Banking:  What is the Cross-Border threat posed by the likes of Hawala and Daigou?
• Deep Social Engineering:  I am not the Duke of Marlborough and nor am I calling from your Bank! 
• Inside the Mind of a Criminal: From the Fraud Mindset to the Psychopathy Spectrum.

In addition to this Alex often works to a brief and recently spoke on the new “Failure to Prevent Fraud” legislation.

For more information on Alex speaking work please visit is webpage or contact us on enquiries@scampspeakers.co.uk