Scams Were Awful. Then They Got AI
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AI has made scams dramatically more convincing, as seen in a California woman who sold her condo below market value and sent over $81,000 to a romance scammer using deepfake videos. With nearly 59,000 romance scam victims reported in 2024, the threat is growing fast. Emerging "agentic" AI systems can now run scams autonomously at massive scale, but the same technology also powers promising new defenses, including real-time fraud detection and AI tools that actively engage and disrupt scammers.
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