Leslie Pickett lost over $10,000 to a deepfake scam after a fake Jon Bon Jovi account on Instagram used AI videos to build trust over months.

Broadcast journalists around the world are being targeted amid an explosion in deepfake scams. Are social media platforms doing enough to counter them? In May 2024, Pooja Shali, an anchor for India ...

Artificial-intelligence tools have become good enough at fabricating realistic video that the FBI is urging people to confirm the identity of anyone contacting them through a second, independent ...

Kuwait's video-call scammers are changing tactics, posing first as police officers and now as bank employees. But with residents increasingly aware of their ...

A Filipino woman thought she had found love with Dubai’s charismatic crown prince after weeks of flirtatious messages and intimate video calls. Instead, she became the latest victim of an increasingly ...

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FaceTime allows iPhone users not only to talk to someone but to actually see them as they engage in conversation. But, as criminals do with many helpful features, they use them to conduct a scam.

The days when YouTube was just a place for funny clips and music videos are behind us. With 2.53 billion active users, it has become a space where entertainment, information, and deception coexist.

Dozens of Telegram channels reviewed by WIRED include job listings for “AI face models.” The (mostly) women who land these gigs are likely being used to dupe victims out of their money. When applying ...