Shady stores are using AI to trick us out of holiday cash
.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.
How cyber crooks trick people into making fake investments
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.
Email faker steals $30,000 from family trying to buy a home
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.
Fake leather, fake people: AI sellers generate numerous complaints
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.
FACT CHECK: Can Elon Musk & Leonardo DiCaprio lower your electric bill?
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.
Watch out for these holiday shopping fakes
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.
Scam psychology: How deepfake Walmart callers use your own brain against you
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.
Would you fall for this deepfake scam call?
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.