AI-Era Scams

Cloned voices of family members or executives used to authorise urgent payments or 'rescues'.

'AI trading bots' promising automated, guaranteed profits — a wrapper for investment fraud.

Deepfake videos and images of celebrities 'endorsing' investments or giveaways.

AI chatbots posing as brand support to extract logins, payments or remote access.

Pixel-perfect copies of real company sites used for phishing, fake sales, or fake support.

Fabricated 'news articles' promoting scams, often using deepfakes and trusted-outlet branding.

Live deepfake video used to impersonate executives or loved ones and authorise transfers.

AI chatbots that simulate a romantic partner at scale to groom victims toward payments.

Entire platforms branded around 'AI trading' that are fake from end to end.

Bogus 'AI advisor' services that give harmful advice or harvest sensitive financial data.

Scammers use AI voice cloning to simulate a panicked loved one and demand ransom before the 'victim' can be reached.

AI-generated CVs and deepfake interview candidates used to infiltrate jobs, steal data, or receive salaries fraudulently.

AI builds entire fake e-commerce stores at scale — products, reviews, and policies — to take payment for goods that never arrive.

AI-generated intimate images created without consent and used to extort payment or compliance through threats of exposure.

Fraudulent AI services that simulate deceased loved ones or long-term companionship to extract recurring payments from vulnerable users.

AI-generated disaster imagery, fabricated victim stories, and cloned charity branding used to divert donations to criminals.

AI tools that scrape your public data to generate personalised, convincing phishing messages that reference real details from your life.

Subscription services claiming AI algorithms generate profitable trading signals, backed by fabricated performance records and paid testimonials.

Criminals combine real and AI-generated identity details to create new credit profiles that are used to take out loans, cards, and credit in a name that is partly or wholly fictitious.

Fraudulent job applicants use AI face filters, voice changers, and fabricated credentials to pass video interviews and win remote roles, then exploit the access for pay fraud, data theft, or to launder funds for a hidden third party.

Sellers use AI text generators to mass-produce fake five-star reviews that sound personal and specific, manipulating shoppers into buying poor-quality or non-existent products.

Fraudsters use AI face-swap and deepfake tools to defeat remote identity verification checks, opening bank accounts, wallets, or loans in someone else's name or a fabricated identity.

Scammers embed convincing AI chatbots into fake websites and messaging apps to answer victims' questions in real time, building false trust and extracting money or personal data far more effectively than a static scam page.

Fraudsters use AI to produce highly convincing fake invoices — matching a real supplier's branding, tone, and billing history — that trick businesses and individuals into paying money to the wrong account.

Counterfeit "ChatGPT", "AI assistant", and "AI photo and video generator" apps and browser extensions impersonate real AI brands. They trap you in fleeceware subscriptions, steal logins and card details, hijack your browser, or quietly record everything you type.

Attackers hide instructions inside web pages, emails, documents, images, or reviews that your AI assistant reads and obeys — quietly leaking your data, approving a payment, or acting against you while you trust the machine.

Fake and predatory "AI girlfriend/boyfriend" apps monetise loneliness twice over: counterfeit companion apps that phish logins and hide punishing subscription traps, and chatbots engineered to build emotional dependence and then steer users into payments, gifts, and crypto "investments".