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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 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 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 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 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 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...
Leer masStatecraft deepfake — fake former Ukrainian FM Kuleba Zoom (Sen. Cardin Sept 2024)
An apparent nation state actor (Russia/China/Iran suspected) impersonated former Ukrainian FM Dmytro Kuleba in a live Zoom with US Senator Ben...
Leer masCelebrity-endorsed deepfake investment video (Musk / Trump / Bocelli / Schumacher)
Hijacked YouTube channels (sometimes 1M subs) livestream deepfake 'Elon Musk' / 'Trump' announcing 'send 1 BTC / ETH to this address, receive double...
Leer masDiplomatic / NGO Zoom-meeting setup with deepfake of known interlocutor
Threat actor scrapes public footage of a known ex official / NGO leader / scholar the target would reasonably take a meeting with. Schedules a Zoom...
Leer masDeepfake dirigeant — fausse visio Teams avec PDG / DAF
Mode opératoire identique à Arup / WPP, mais ciblé sur entreprises françaises (CAC40, ETI): visio Teams/Zoom où le 'PDG' et le 'DAF' sont des...
Leer masDeepfake forensic tells — iris reflection asymmetry, blink anomaly, neck-edge artifacts
Reality Defender + Hive + Truepic + DARPA SemaFor identify multiple deterministic tells in deepfaked video. Useful for analysts + journalists...
Leer masPolitical deepfake — Biden / Putin / Macron synthetic announcement
Deepfake video of a head of state issuing fake order (Biden conceding, Putin announcing nuclear strike, Macron resigning). Used for market...
Leer masLive-deepfake video call in pig-butchering romance scam (HK ring 27 arrests Oct 2024)
Scammers built AI generated attractive female profile photos, opened Tinder/Instagram contact, escalated to WhatsApp + live video calls — but the...
Leer masSextortion with deepfake of victim's face on adult content
Attacker scrapes victim's public photos (LinkedIn / Instagram), face swaps them onto pornographic clip, then emails the victim demanding crypto...
Leer masAI-generated CSAM / sextortion of minors — face-swap of teen onto explicit content
Scammers (often based abroad) target teens via Instagram / Snapchat / Discord, scrape their photos, generate AI explicit deepfake, then extort: pay...
Leer masAI-generated 'wedding / event photo' extortion — 'you were there with [person]'
Attacker uses face swap to insert victim into compromising photos with a child / mistress / political enemy at a fake event, then extorts: pay or...
Leer masTeams meeting deepfake of CEO Mark Read (WPP attempt May 2024)
Attackers built a fake WhatsApp using Read's public photo, scheduled a Microsoft Teams call, then ran a deepfake video feed (YouTube footage retimed)...
Leer masVoice-clone of bank fraud-dept officer + caller-ID spoof
Scammer spoofs the bank's official anti fraud number on caller ID, then a voice cloned from a real customer service rep (sometimes recorded from an...
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