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Grandparent emergency scam — bail / hospital cash courier
Caller (sometimes AI voice clone of grandchild from social media samples) tells grandparent 'I've been arrested / in an accident, don't tell mom and...
Leer masMedicare 'new card' scam — health insurance ID harvesting
Caller posing as Medicare or insurer says a 'new Medicare card with chip / DNA testing kit / back brace' is being issued and asks for the Medicare...
Leer masMilitary romance scam — fake deployed soldier impersonation
Scammer creates profile on Match, OurTime, Facebook using stolen photos of real US military member (often general or special forces), claims...
Leer masSweepstakes / lottery winner scam — Publishers Clearing House impostor
Senior receives call/letter: 'Congratulations, you've won $2.5M from Publishers Clearing House / Mega Millions / Costco'. To claim the prize, victim...
Leer masAdult TikTok search scams: fake video pages lead to subscription traps and malware
Searching for "Adult TikTok" or similar terms often leads to fake pages that promise explicit clips but actually operate as ad funnels. These sites...
Leer masBeware of fake inheritance notifications asking for upfront fees
Scammers send convincing messages claiming you are the sole heir of a distant relative or unknown wealthy stranger. They promise millions and ask you...
Leer masAdvance-Fee Scams: How Fraudsters Reinvents Old Traps with Geopolitical Hooks
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Leer masMeta AI Support Bot Handed Instagram Accounts to Hackers - How to Protect Your Account
Meta's AI powered support chatbot was tricked by attackers into changing the email addresses on Instagram accounts, effectively handing over account...
Leer masFBI: Americans lost nearly $900 million to AI-powered scams in 2025
The FBI's 2025 Internet Crime Report reveals $893 million in AI related scam losses across 22,364 complaints, with voice cloning, deepfake videos,...
Leer masAI generated fake seeds sold as impossible plants on eBay, Amazon, and Etsy
Scammers are using AI image generators to sell seeds for plants that do not exist, listing them on eBay, Amazon, and Etsy. Listings promote flowers...
Leer masAI-facilitated fraud surging: 22,000+ IC3 complaints, USD 893M+ losses (2025) — voice clones, deepfakes, AI chatbots
In 2025 the FBI IC3 received more than 22,000 complaints citing AI involvement, with losses exceeding USD 893 million. Criminals use generative AI...
Leer masHow to spot AI-generated images used in scams: fake pets, dating profiles, and donation appeals
Scammers now use AI generated images to fabricate emotional stories and trick people into sending money or sharing personal data. From fake lost pet...
Leer masDetecting AI-generated images used in scams - NCSC Switzerland weekly review Week 28
Scammers increasingly use AI tools to create deceptively realistic images for phishing emails, fake shop websites, social media profiles, and...
Leer masDeepfake KYC bypass — synthetic ID + liveness deepfake
Sumsub 2024 reported a 10x rise in deepfake based KYC attacks on banks / exchanges / brokers. Attacker generates fake ID document (passport /...
Leer masAI-generated fake employment reference + recommendation letter
Job applicant (or fraud ring like DPRK IT workers) generates fake reference letters via GPT 4 / Claude — perfect business English, plausible names,...
Leer masAI-generated invoice with pixel-perfect vendor logo + signature
Attacker uses Midjourney / SDXL / GPT Vision to clone a vendor's invoice template — exact logo, watermark, formatting, even a fake authorising...
Leer masWeek 32: Test Your AI Knowledge to Spot Scam Images
NCSC Switzerland's four part summer series highlighted how today's AI models can produce highly convincing fake images, and how scammers are already...
Leer masAI-generated profile photos on dating apps + LinkedIn (StyleGAN / Midjourney)
Scammers populate Tinder / Bumble / LinkedIn / Instagram with photos generated by StyleGAN3, Midjourney, FLUX. Used for pig butchering, romance, fake...
Leer masAI Brand Phishing: How ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek Lures Steal Credentials and Cards
Threat actors are exploiting the AI hype wave by impersonating popular platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, and Microsoft Copilot in phishing...
Leer masAI-Powered OSINT: How Cybercriminals Use Your Public Data to Personalize Fraud
AI has turned open source intelligence (OSINT) into an end to end fraud pipeline. Scammers can now automatically scrape your public social media...
Leer masHow to spot AI-generated scam emails and fake websites
The NCSC reports a sharp rise in AI generated scam emails and fraudulent websites targeting Swiss users. As language models improve, traditional...
Leer masInstagram Account Hijack via Meta AI Support Bot: How It Works and How to Stay Safe
Hackers are exploiting Meta's new AI customer support chatbot to hijack Instagram accounts, including high profile handles like the Obama White House...
Leer masLLM-written BEC email — perfect grammar across languages, no telltale typos
Threat actors use ChatGPT / Claude / local LLMs to write Business Email Compromise lures in flawless English, Italian, German, French, Mandarin etc....
Leer masAI essay-mill scam — students pay for 'human-written' work that's GPT-generated
Essay mill websites charge students $20 200 per assignment claiming 'human writers'. In reality, ChatGPT / Claude generate the work in minutes, mill...
Leer masAI-generated fake court / police document for extortion or fee fraud
Attackers use multimodal LLMs to generate convincing court summons, police citations, prosecutor letters — perfect typography, official looking...
Leer masAI-generated fake news network for ad-revenue + influence operations
NewsGuard (2024) tracked 1000+ AI generated 'news' websites — full editorial content written by GPT/Claude, headshots StyleGAN, RSS scraped +...
Leer masFull-AI romance — no human, end-to-end LLM chatbot relationship
Latest evolution: the scammer is a fully automated chatbot pipeline (LLM for chat + voice TTS for occasional voice notes + AI image gen for 'selfies...
Leer masPhishers abuse legitimate cloud platforms to bypass MFA and steal credentials
Phishers are increasingly hosting fake login pages on trusted cloud platforms such as Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Pages and IPFS to...
Leer masAI-generated 'finfluencer' promoting bogus trading platform
Fully synthetic 'finance influencer' (no real human) on Instagram/TikTok/X promotes a 'proprietary AI trading bot' with screenshots of 1000% returns....
Leer masMulti-party deepfake Zoom call impersonating CFO + execs (Arup $25M HK case Jan 2024)
Attackers harvested LinkedIn/YouTube/webinar footage of Arup execs, trained real time face swap + voice clone models, then invited a Hong Kong...
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