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.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.

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.

A look at how AI-generated Walmart scam calls exploit psychology, using fear, urgency, trust, and curiosity to push victims into pressing one and handing money to criminals.

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.