New WhatsApp AI Voice Clone Scam Is Hitting Hard
A voice message came from his Wu’s fathers WhatsApp Account. The voice matched his fathers exactly. It had the same speech patterns as his dad and the same urgency his busy father often had when he needed to close a business deal. His father needed HK$1 million (about $127,000) wired into a business friends account. […]
The Best-Paying Job In Fraud Right Now Is Reporting It
David Reed doesn’t work for the government. He is a private citizen in North Carolina, and over the past six months, two car dealers have cut checks to the Justice Department for $3.6 million because of him. So what happened? He filed False Claims Act lawsuits against Jeff Wyler Automotive and Garber Management Group, two […]
Kitboga Gets AI Scam Bot To Confess, Then It Starts Oinking
Kitboga – the nicest scam-baiter in the world – is back at it. Last week, during his live “Hunting AI Scammers” show, he manipulated a scammer’s own artificial intelligence bot into confessing what it was built to do. The scam bot picked up his call as an agent named Cindy who worked for the “processing […]
US Woman Was Terrorized In Brutal Digital Arrest Scam
Every night in March of this year, a man who called himself the “night officer” watched a college professor sleep. It was not in person, but rather on a Microsoft Teams video call. He was making sure she did not escape from her home and monitoring her every move. His feed came from the college […]
Super Sketchy $7 Gig Recruits People To Send Selfie Videos
I was browsing Telegram, and a wild recruiting advertisement caught my eye. The job is called “Face Motion Video Project,” and it offers recruits $7 for a few minutes of work. But that work involves uploading selfie videos of themselves, and it’s highly unclear what those videos could be used for. Why on earth would […]
He Used AI Agents To Wear Other People’s Faces And Steal Money
Some of the people found out that they had been robbed of their identities when a detective showed them a short video of their own face. On the screen, they were smiling, blinking, and turning their heads, but the clips they watched were not real. Israeli investigators say the videos were generated using artificial intelligence […]
Japan Built An AI Police Officer To Fight The Fake Ones
Her name is AI Ko. She isn’t real. She is an AI, created by the police in Osaka to help educate residents about the rising threat of digital arrest sweeping across Japan. She speaks in a calm voice, even as she walks viewers through the terrorizing scam that many are falling for. Is she effective? […]
New Robotic AI Bot Farms Are The Latest Scam Threat
A new kind of phone farm is being used in dating scams. And they are going to look a lot more human than the old bot farms. Mechanical fingers and robotic AI are now being used to swipe, type, and interact on social media in a way that has never been seen before. Videos posted […]
Dirty Trick-His Own Face Drained His Bank Account
Gary Hilburn pressed the little red woodpecker on his phone because a man on the other end of the Facetime call told him it was the only way that he could claim his prize. That tap was a huge mistake. By the next morning in April, his Wells Fargo savings account was drained and so […]
Fake Auto, Tractor, And RV Dealer Scam Growing Like Wildfire
Fake dealer websites selling non-existent cars, tractors, and heavy equipment are popping up all over the internet, luring victims by the hundreds every month. I wrote about this scheme last year which has now exploded to hundreds of sites. The sites look professional. Many impersonate real dealers in small towns, complete with stolen photos, AI-generated […]
A Deepfake Exit Interview Unraveled Massive Insider Fraud
By the time the HR representative dialed into what was supposed to be a routine exit interview, the employee on the other end of the call had not actually worked at the company for close to five years. He was an imposter recruited by his bosses to dial in to the call and read a […]
As Cambodia Tightens, Scammers Flee To Sri Lanka
On the night of May 11th, police officers walked into a tourist hotel in the surf town of Midigama and found something you wouldn’t normally find on a beach. Twenty-eight Indian men and five Nepalis were sitting in front of laptops. They had flown in on tourist visas. But they weren’t surfing. They were scamming. […]
This $4.9 Million AI Deepfake Zoom Call Is Wild
A rich businessman in Singapore was going to have a very bad day. A Zoom invitation arrived on his phone and it looked like the kind of message that a well-connected businessman might actually receive. The sender of the message was the Secretary of the Cabinet, and he was inviting him to a private meeting […]
Risky Business -They’re Buying American Front Men
The front page of IBOCore.com features a picture of three men. None of them has features; instead, everything is pixelated. The website calls these people founders. Yet none of them has a name. What the three anonymous founders are selling, though, is laid out in plain English. For $1,999 down and $4,499 a month, a […]
Bust Out, Sweeps And First Party Fraud Killing Auto Lenders
We just released our annual fraud trends report at Point Predictive and the numbers paint a pretty grim picture – auto loan fraud just hit a new record and its showing no signs of slowing down. The report, drawn from 90 billion risk elements across more than $5 trillion in loan applications, puts total auto […]