Crooks are hijacking AI avatars to use for cybercrime
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.
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.
Two crime fighters accused of running money for romance scammers
One is Special Deputy United States Marshal. The other, a tax auditor supporting criminal investigations. But prosecutors say these two crime fighters took part in crime themselves, receiving thousands of dollars from victims of romance scams and helping process stolen money. What crimes are they accused of? See how investigators say the schemes went down.