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AI phishing scams use generative AI, deepfakes, and machine learning to create highly personalized, convincing, and automated fraudulent messages at scale, bypassing traditional detection. These attacks, including fake emails and voice/video cloning, mimic trusted sources to steal credentials or money. Key defenses include verifying identities, slowing down decisions, and checking for red flags.
How AI Phishing Scams Work
Hyper-Personalized Phishing: AI crafts realistic, tailor-made emails (or "spear-phishing") by analyzing social media, scraping data, and removing the typos or awkward phrasing common in old scams.
Voice Cloning (Vishing): Scammers use AI to clone voices from short audio samples, pretending to be a family member in distress or a CEO asking for an urgent transfer.
Deepfake Video Calls: AI generates real-time, fake video feeds where criminals impersonate colleagues or executives during video conferences.
Polymorphic Content: AI generates slight variations of the same phishing message, making it difficult for automated email filters to detect.
Common AI Scam Tactics
Fake Bank/Support Alerts: Messages claiming unauthorized activity or delivery issues.
Urgent Payment Requests: CEO fraud or "grandparent" scams using cloned voices.
AI Chatbots: Malicious bots designed to engage users in conversations to gather sensitive information.
How to Protect Yourself
Pause and Think: Take a 9-second pause to evaluate urgent or strange requests.
Verify Independently: If you receive a suspicious call or message from a known contact, call them back on a different, known number.
Inspect Sender Address: Check for subtle spelling differences in email addresses.
Don't Trust Visuals: Be wary of video calls requesting sensitive actions, as they can be deepfakes.
Be wary of unknown callers: Do not answer and block caller. If you answer avoid speaking and yes/no answers. Hang up as soon as possible. They could be trying to capture your voice responses for other nefarious uses.
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