Criminals use artificial intelligence to scam you
Scam calls are nothing new. Criminals have weaponized the telephone to fraud victims well before the internet was widely available for nearly everyone on the planet. With new technologies, like artificial intelligence, scammers have new tools to target a larger group of victims and make their attacks more convincing — and potentially more lucrative.
More specifically, online criminals can use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to fabricate convincing-sounding calls. Therefore, generative AI and so-called AI voice cloning have made scam calls more difficult to identify as fake. And as AI tools become more accessible and easy to use, the number of AI scams and other such frauds will only grow.
One advantage of generative AI for online criminals is that they can create more convincing scam calls at an unprecedented scale. Until now, scammers have relied on generic attacks that are easy to spot as fake, such as phishing messages with only the recipient’s name changed. With AI, scammers can generate unique scam calls and messages targeted at a certain individual with a much smaller effort.
Do you think AI technologies will be more commonly used for fraud and scamming in the future?
Consider the countermeasures to prevent these crimes.