AI Enhances Scammer Tactics Making Detection Harder
June 22, 2024
Scammers are using AI tools to create convincing fraud schemes, making them harder to detect. AI-generated messages and fake identities bypass traditional scam indicators. Incidents include impersonation of senior executives and job scams, leading to financial losses and identity theft. Banks are adopting AI to combat these scams, but the sophistication of AI-driven fraud continues to pose significant challenges.
- Alleged deployer
- unknown-scammers
- Alleged developer
- ai-tool-creators, openai
- Alleged harmed parties
- bank-customers
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/735
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
When citing the database as a whole, please use:
McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide
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