The Aspen Institute Financial Security Program's Scam Prevention Initiative
Fraud and scams are a national security and financial crisis affecting millions every day—in 2025, criminals stole more than $3 billion every week from Americans, including seniors and veterans.
The Aspen Institute Financial Security Program (Aspen FSP)'s Scam Prevention Initiative is an effort to drive systems-level change by convening leaders from across influential industries to advance practical solutions to combat scams and fraud, develop prevention tools and improve measurement, and drive the coordination needed to reduce scam activity.
Leadership Group
The Leadership Group on Scam Prevention, part of the Scam Prevention Initiative, brings together senior leaders from influential companies and industries, including financial services, technology platforms, retailers, consumer advocates, and others.
The group’s goals and purpose:
Convening public and private sector leaders around a focused action agenda
Building better data to show the scale of the problem and what is working
Advancing practical solutions to prevent and disrupt the scam cycle
Supporting partnerships that can deliver action across sectors
Building and sustaining momentum for policy and industry action against scams
Driving continued awareness and media attention of both the problem and those working to solve it
Our Solutions Forums
Our Solutions Forums are designed to tackle specific parts of the National Strategy to Prevent Scams by convening technical experts across a range of roles within organizations. These experts will define and build a solution set around particular parts of the strategy that participants commit to addressing.
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