Watching Your Wallet: Tips to avoid AI scams

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- With artificial quality increasing much blase by the day, it's casual to get duped portion aimlessly scrolling societal media.

But what happens erstwhile the exertion gets into the incorrect hands?

"Cyber criminals person learned to usage AI to deceive us," says Former FBI operative Eric O'Neill. "That aged method successful espionage of deception."

The newest scam -- leveraging your spot by impersonating a loved 1 successful distress. This time, it's utilizing your phone's video chat feature, cloning your loved one's dependable and utilizing their image.

"You really spot that loved 1 with a FaceTime oregon a video telephone saying this to you," O'Neill said. "That tin hype up the urgency and the deception successful the attack. It lone takes a small spot of someone's dependable and an representation to get that avatar to accidental thing that they want."

O'Neill specialized successful counterintelligence and is present utilizing that acquisition to halt cyber criminals successful their tracks.

"The thought of counterintelligence is learning each of the techniques and tactics of your adversary, and deploying those techniques and tactics successful bid to support against them successful bid to drawback these spies and terrorists," helium said.

As scammers crippled ways to exploit disorder and dispersed fear, determination are steps to instrumentality to support yourself.

"One happening you tin bash with your household is usage a codeword," O'Neill said.

While emotions tin tally precocious successful what whitethorn look similar an exigency situation, effort to intermission to look for immoderate ocular clues that it's a scam.

"You privation to look retired for antithetic artifacts," O'Neill said. "AI is getting amended and better, but it volition inactive glitch a small bit. It volition blink weirdly, the rima won't sync up rather right."

If the code sounds off, O'Neill says, spot your gut.

"In that moment, you person to instrumentality a measurement back, not succumb to the unit and marque definite that you're thinking," helium said.

For much tips connected however to support yourself from cyber criminals, O'Neill has a publication retired present titled "Spies, Lies, and Cybercrime."

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