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.

Criminals running romance scams have added a new weapon to their playbook: real-time deepfake video calls that let them pose as someone else on camera, pass visual “proof of identity” checks, and keep ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve clicked through on a scam ad or called the number, and then downloaded something, handed over some ...

AI is threatening to replace human workers in some fields, and rightfully, many people are furious that they’re going to be replaced by lines of code. Count scumbag scam artists among them, as a ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville tattoo artist says scammers stole her videos, photos and tattoo portfolio to create fake TikTok accounts that tricked customers into sending deposits for ...

The instructions were clear: He had four days to make each victim fall in love. And there were a lot of victims. Online, Safeer Mohammed Koorimannil, who was trafficked to a scam center in Myanmar, ...

Americans have been taken with scams for years. Now, the word is being used for any system that ends with somebody profiting at their expense. By Nitsuh Abebe The word “scam” keeps getting more ...