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AI Based Scams Are Convincing, You’re Really Chatting with a Bot | Clumsy scam emails are easy to spot. New AI aided scams are much more convincing.

The clumsy scam emails are gone. New AI aided scams are much more convincing.

The bad guys are now better writers and more convincing conversationalists, who can hold a conversation without revealing they are a bot, say the bank and tech investigators who spend their days tracking the latest schemes. Criminals today are faking driver’s licenses and other identification in an attempt to open new bank accounts and adding computer-generated faces and graphics to pass identity-verification processes. If scammers obtain your email and a commonly used password from a tech company data breach, AI tools can swiftly check if the same credentials unlock your bank, social media or shopping accounts.

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