Employment fraud has moved from theoretical risk to documented enforcement priority. The Department of Justice announced coordinated actions in June 2025 against North Korean IT worker schemes, including searches of 29 laptop farms across 16 states. The Agentic AI Problem: When Bots Transact With Bots. Experian’s 2026 Future of Fraud Forecast identifies “machine-to-machine mayhem” as this year’s leading threat. The concern isn’t simply that fraudsters use AI. It’s that autonomous AI agents now initiate transactions, access systems, and make decisions with minimal human oversight. When something goes wrong, determining who authorized what becomes genuinely unclear.