Attention to scams with AI: They warn possible victims looking for love online

Attention to scams with AI: They warn possible victims looking for love online

February 12, 2025 – 13:55

Its uses allow falsifying voices and images. Meta systems take advantage of behavior patterns to closely follow scamming activity.

The company Goal Wednesday warned users That be careful with the acquaintances online who promise a romance but want money. In the face of Valentine, scammers often use false personalities to take advantage of those who are looking for love.

“This is a new tool in the arsenal of the scammers,” the journalists told reporters Director of Global Meta Threat Interruption Policies, David Agranovich.

Attention to “love” scammers

The detection systems of the Meta Applications, which includes Instagram and WhatsAppare based on behavior patterns and technical signals instead of images. That is, they spy the activity of the scammers despite the tricks of artificial intelligence (AI), according to Agranovich.

“This makes our detection and application somewhat more resistant to generative AI,” said the director. To do this, he set an example of a recently disrupted scam that, apparently, originated in Cambodia And he was going to people in Chinese and Japanese languages.

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The target company warned users with online acquaintances who promise a romance but want money.

The target company warned users with online acquaintances who promise a romance but want money.

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Openai researchers determined that the “scam compound” seemed to be using the tools of the San Francisco artificial intelligence company to generate and translate content, according to goal.

Use of AI, strengthened for evil

In recent months, the use of AI by scammers was strengthened, the “Hacker Ethics” and Executive Director of SocialProof Security, Rachel Tobac.

Genai tools, available for free in the main companies, They allow scammers to change their faces and voices in video calls To impersonate someone who is not.

“You can also use these false bots that allow you to create a character or make phone calls using a voice clone without the need for a human,” Tobac said. “They are called agents, but they are not used for customer service work. They are used for automated scams.”

Source: Ambito

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