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In the movies, people evading law enforcement can hack into facial detection systems and put their face onto someone else. That's what actor Tom Cruise and his team did in the movie Dead Reckoning. But can we do this same kind of hack in real life? A researcher tries his hand at it with fascinating results.

Which is the real celebrity? We go undercover to expose cyber criminal tricks, romance scammers and celebrity impostors. This two-month investigation exposes a scammer posing as American Idol judge and Grammy Award-winning singer Lionel Richie.

.You have a new decision to make when it comes to holiday shopping. Not just price or quality, but also, "Is it real or AI?" Shady stores are selling you on fake pictures of low quality products. Here's how to avoid the AI fakery and shop smarter during the holidays and any time of year.

People who have never invested in cryptocurrency are launching their first big trades online. But in this case, the trades are fake, the traders are cyber criminals, and the money disappears. Ampyx News goes undercover to show you how these attackers are tricking people out of more than $5 billion a year and ends up face-to-face with a deepfake video caller.

All it took was one missing letter in an email address. A Florida family lost more than $30,000 when an email impostor infiltrated their home purchase and made off with the down payment. Here's how this real estate wire fraud happened.

Romance scammers swindled an Atlanta woman out of more than half a million dollars in an intricate scheme that lasted months. Most romance scammers get away with their victim's money. But in this case, detectives tracked down members of the crime ring and made arrests. Will they go to court? Here is an inside look at the crime and court case.

Watch out for fake artisans who claim to be shutting down their workshops and selling off their handmade goods. Online stores are using AI generated pictures of fake people to advertise a bittersweet story of retirement and big discounts. Unfortunately, buyers are finding out some of these stories are fake. And the customers are the ones left holding the bag.

As the weather gets colder, we turn up the heat -- and so do cyber crooks peddling fake energy-saving devices. They’re flooding inboxes with fake emails and false claims like endorsements from billionaire Elon Musk. They know that as electric bills go up, people are looking for ways to cut down.

Trying to find the best deals this time of year? Keep an eye out for copycat sites designed to trick you out of money. The fakers are working harder this year. And they're hoping that you're moving too quickly to notice the small details that reveal the scam.

You may hang up on a scam caller, but would you hang up on Donald Trump? Criminals may be hoping you'll listen up and fall for their scam with the help of a deepfake Donald.

Scammers are using deepfake voices to trick you in fake Walmart calls. But it's the psychology behind the voices that works even better than the AI. Here are four psychological tactics that cyber criminals will use on you -- and how to defeat them.

Criminals are hijacking legitimate AI avatars normally used for training, ads, and more. They're deploying them to trick people out of money, cryptocurrency and passwords. What are AI companies doing to keep their avatars from a life of crime? Here's what we found.

 Your number one travel tip for 2024? Stay away from the deepfake authors flooding the Amazon Kindle Store with shoddy travel books. We take a trip to fact check six travel guides and expose their sloppy and often incorrect info. We'll also show you how to find good, helpful travel tips for your vacations.

Human or AI? That's the question we'll need to ask ourselves when the phone rings. Criminals are using artificial intelligence to create fakes voices of our loved ones and trick us out of money. Now, you can hear one of these real deepfake scam calls for yourself.