06/11/2025

You're Not Ready for AI Scammers

Everything from emails to video calls cannot be trusted

Imagine you meet someone new. Be it on a dating app or social media, you chance across each other online and get to talking. They are genuine and relatable, so you quickly take it out of the DMs to a platform like Telegram or WhatsApp. You exchange photos and even video call each over. You start to get comfortable. Then, suddenly, they bring up money.

They need you to cover the cost of their Wi-Fi access, maybe. Or they’re trying out this new  cryptocurrency. You should really get in on it early! And then, only after it’s too late, you realize that the person you were talking to was in fact not real at all.

They were a real-time AI-generated deepfake hiding the face of someone running a scam.

Please select this link to read the complete article from WIRED.