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.

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.

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.