Scams

ON MARCH 10, ACCORDING TO NEWS REPORTS, IN RECENT YEARS, WITH THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF AI TECHNOLOGY, THERE HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF NEW FEATURES AND TRENDS IN THE CRIME OF FRAUD COMMITTED BY THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK AS A RESULT OF AI ' S MALICIOUS MISUSE. MR. WANG BIN, PRESIDENT OF THE THIRD DIVISION OF THE CRIMINAL TRIAL CHAMBER OF THE SUPREME PEOPLE ' S COURT, DESCRIBED THE MALICIOUS MISUSE OF AI TECHNOLOGY BY THE OUTLAWS AS AN IMPORTANT CATALYST FOR THE ESCALATION OF THE CRIME OF FRAUD IN THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK, WHICH HAS DIRECTLY ACCELERATED THE EVOLUTION OF THE CRIME OF FRAUD IN SUCH A WAY AS TO GIVE THE CRIME OF FRAUD IN THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK A PROMINENT FEATURE OF THE INTELLECTUALIZATION OF MEANS OF FRAUD, THE CHAINING OF THE BLACK AND GRAY INDUSTRY AND THE EXPANSION OF SOCIAL HARM. REPORT..

On 19 September, DeepSeek issued an official statement: recently, illegal elements had been impersonating DeepSeek's official or active employees, falsifying work plates, operating licences, etc., and defrauding users on various platforms in the name of “calculative leasing”, “equity financing, etc. The act seriously infringes the interests of the user and damages the reputation of the company. (a) In-depth requests have never required the user to pay a personal or unofficial account, and any request for a private transfer is fraudulent

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a warning Thursday local time that "malicious actors" are masquerading as senior U.S. officials and using AI-generated voice messages to target current and former government officials and their contacts, CNBC reported on May 16.The FBI cautioned in its announcement: "If you receive a message claiming to be from a senior U.S. official, do not rely on its authenticity." Beginning last month, scammers have been masquerading as high-ranking U.S. officials via text and AI voice messages in an attempt to gain access to personal accounts by establishing contact with their targets. The public ...

February 24 news, the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau Minhang Branch recently reported the detection of a "love dating" in the name of telecommunication network fraud, smashed a 10-person fraud gang, involving funds of more than 2 million yuan, the corresponding criminal gangs mainly use AI to generate "Miss" photo and video content, and then use the same set of dialogue "script" to nearly 1,000 men around the country to implement "streaming" fraud. The corresponding criminal gang mainly used AI to generate "Miss" photo video content in the short video platform to attract traffic, and then use the same set of conversation "script", nearly a thousand men around the country to implement "streaming" fraud. ▲ criminal gangs using AI generated "ID card" It is reported that in August 2024, Mr. Liu, a citizen of Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau Minhang Branch Criminal Investigation Detachment reported ...

Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- An incident of fraud using artificial intelligence voice tools recently occurred in Italy, according to Bloomberg. Fraudsters disguised themselves as Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto and members of his team and tried to convince some of Italy's top entrepreneurs to send money overseas. According to Italian media outlets such as La Repubblica and Corriere Della Sera, Prada SpA co-CEO Patrizio Bertel...

Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Anne, a 53-year-old interior designer in France, was recently swindled out of 830,000 euros (note: about 6,275,000 yuan) by a scam ring posing as Hollywood actor Brad Pitt, the BBC reported. According to a Sunday primetime program on TF1, Anne downloaded Instagram in February 2023 and was contacted by someone claiming to be Brad Pitt's mother, who said Pitt "needed a woman like her". The following day, a man claiming to be Pitt and Anne took...

I guess we have all heard about this recently: an actor in the name of "audition" was tricked into Southeast Asia's electric fraud gangs, and was eventually rescued back to China. I can't help but marvel at the endless ways of fraud, and if you're not careful, you may fall into a carefully arranged trap. As a platform in the field of AI applications, I suddenly feel the need to summarize the typical AI fraud schemes, and give myself and everyone a reminder. Welcome to forward it, so that more people can understand AI scams and be more vigilant. 🚨 Set 1: AI face-swapping video scam Fraudsters collect information about someone through various channels, such as name, phone number, social account, photo...

Google said Tuesday that it plans to tweak Google Search to make it clearer to users which images in search results were generated by AI or edited by AI tools. Over the next few months, Google will mark AI-generated and edited images in the "About this image" window of Search, Google Lens and the Circle to Search feature on Android, the company said, adding that similar alerts could appear on other Google platforms such as YouTube. Similar prompts may appear on other Google platforms, such as YouTube. Google says it will share more information about this later this year. Notably...

According to CCTV News, in a case recently uncovered in Huangshi, Hubei, a criminal gang used AI face-changing technology to unlock and resell social accounts for illegal profits. After joining a live broadcast room for stock trading, the victim, Mr. Wang, was induced to invest and eventually encountered difficulties in withdrawing cash. The other party's account was frozen for suspected fraud and the funds could not be withdrawn. During the investigation, the police found that the social accounts involved were unfrozen and re-logged in, and it was speculated that a gang helped to unblock them. After investigation, the Huangshi police arrested three suspects in Henan and seized a large number of electronic devices and phone cards. Suspects Gao and Xu have been selling and helping him online since the end of September 2023...

Since last year, the AI industry has been tirelessly staging "iPhone moments", such as ChatGPT's human-computer communication, HeyGen's ability to let foreigners speak Chinese, and Runway's ability to turn static into dynamic. The center of the AI stage is becoming the focus of competition among all parties. But at the same time, a "disaster" caused by the "butterfly effect" is also being staged on the other side of these AI applications. For example, the seemingly ordinary AI face-changing affects everyone from celebrities and presidents to white-collar employees and students. It is not so amazing or subversive, but it is enough to make us "shudder". And "one-click undressing"...

Recently, a finance professional at a multinational company in Hong Kong, China, lost up to US$25 million (HK$200 million) when he was deceived by a deepfake of his London-based CFO during a video conference. The fake video was reportedly created by using recordings of real past online meetings, while using WhatsApp, email, and one-on-one video conferences to enhance the depth and credibility of the fraud. The Hong Kong employee participated in a video chat in which his CFO appeared in the frame, but acted a little off. He was suspicious at first, but when he recognized other colleagues who seemed to have joined the call, he…