Criminals running romance scams have added a new weapon to their playbook: real-time deepfake video calls that let them pose as someone else on camera, pass visual “proof of identity” checks, and keep ...

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center published a new public service announcement on July 20, 2026, warning that scammers are now producing AI-generated deepfake videos of FBI personnel, including ...

A Filipino woman thought she had found love with Dubai’s charismatic crown prince after weeks of flirtatious messages and intimate video calls. Instead, she became the latest victim of an increasingly ...

Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” with others. Researchers from four ...

I’ve noticed an uptick in scam emails that get past Gmail’s spam filters over the past few years. As an author, the emails I get are usually from so-called book clubs, filled with empty praise for my ...