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A woman believed she had been in a relationship with an actor for a year. The proof was generated.
The actor met her at a convention and was shown hundreds of images and videos someone had sent her claiming to be him. The scam works…
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A seal that breaks if a document is altered, aimed at the reason visas get refused
Germany’s ambassador says a few forged documents force officers to scrutinise every application. The argument here is that the distrust is…
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Scammers are sending AI photographs of missing cats, then threatening to kill them
Three British owners describe being sent convincing AI images of their missing cats, then asked for gift cards or £40,000, then threatened…
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More than 80 per cent get a fake message every week, and the volume itself is what makes the next one work
The research finding that matters is not how many scams arrive. It is that being alerted constantly erodes the ability to tell a real…
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A $500-a-month chatbot read victims’ inboxes and wrote the scam for them. Microsoft found 12,000 accounts hit
EvilTokens was sold on Telegram as a complete service: break into a mailbox, let AI work out who matters in it, then impersonate them…
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X sues two creators for farming fake likes to milk its revenue-share scheme. If you earn from posts, read the rules that just changed
X says Bibek Kumar Sen and Jamyang Sherpa ran a network of accounts that liked and replied to each other within seconds of posting, to…