Mario Forte

About Mario Forte

Mario Forte is a financial crime analyst specializing in fraud detection, analysis, and prevention. His work focuses on identifying suspicious behavior, understanding threat patterns, and communicating risk in ways that support mitigate risk and fight back against financial crime. With a background in IT security operations, Mario brings both technical and investigative perspectives to protect systems and users. He is driven to explore the intersection of cybersecurity, privacy, financial crime, ethics, and threat intelligence through writing and visual storytelling.

Experience

1. Fraud Analyst

   Fifth Third Bank

   Jul 2025 — Present

   Contributes to organization\'s cyber fraud awareness culture by writing, editing, designing and disseminating communications on financial crime, privacy, cybersecurity, fraud intelligence and other relevant content. Investigates financial crime alerts for indicators of compromise, suspicious behavior and fraud by using data from financial transactions, commercial intelligence software, and open-source intelligence (OSINT). Performs research of suspicious persons or organizations to support case building. Identifies indicators of compromised credentials, account takeover, 1st party fraud, scams and other fraud trends to mitigate financial losses. Educate account holders on banking compliance, fraud trends, and strategies for risk mitigation.

Education

• American Public University System

  Counterintelligence Certificate

• Cincinnati State Technical and Community College

  Associate of Science - AS

  2017