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News 11 minFBI: AI Scams Drained $893M From Americans in 2025
The FBI's 2025 Internet Crime Report broke out AI-enabled fraud for the first time in the bureau's 25-year cybercrime-reporting history, and the opening figure was $893 million in direct losses across 22,364 complaints.
FBI AlertsAI DetectionDeepfakes
News 11 minAI Missing-Dog Scam: A Florida Family's $2,800 Close Call
When Bill Cosens's Beagle mix Archer escaped his Deltona backyard, scammers scraped the family's Facebook posts, generated AI photos of Archer 'on an operating table,' and demanded $2,800 for emergency surgery. Sheriff Mike Chitwood says the exact same playbook ran in Texas months earlier.
AI DetectionEmotional Manipulation ScamsPet Scams
News 12 minDOJ Charges Tech CEO in $421M AI Washing Fraud
Federal prosecutors say iLearningEngines, a Nasdaq-listed AI company that briefly hit a $1.5 billion valuation, fabricated at least 90% of its revenue with sham contracts. The indictment signals that AI washing is now a DOJ enforcement priority.
AI WashingInvestment ScamsSecurities Fraud
News 12 minBrooklyn Retiree Lost $1.6M in AI 'Pig Butchering' Romance Scam
A single text message from a woman named 'Jenny' cost 76-year-old Ron Williams his entire $1.6 million retirement. The scammer's videos, photos, and investment 'dashboard' were all AI-fabricated, and his own son had to use AI to prove it.
Pig ButcheringRomance ScamsInvestment Scams
News 11 minSullivan & Cromwell Apologized for 28 AI-Fabricated Court Citations
One of Wall Street's most elite law firms filed an emergency bankruptcy motion containing 28 fabricated citations, including quotes attributed to the court that never existed. It's the clearest sign yet that AI hallucinations are no longer a rookie mistake.
AI Trust WatchAI HallucinationsAI Detection
News 11 minThe 'MAGA Dream Girl' Was AI, and She Was Making Thousands
Wired traced a viral conservative Instagram persona named 'Emily Hart' back to a 22-year-old medical student in India using Google Gemini and image generators. She pulled 10-million-view reels before Instagram banned the account.
AI DetectionFake ProfilesSocial Media Safety
News 13 minChen Zhi and Prince Group: The $15B Pig-Butchering Empire
The random text that drains a retiree's savings isn't random. U.S. prosecutors say it comes out of trafficked-labor scam compounds run by a Cambodian conglomerate, and the DOJ just executed the largest cryptocurrency forfeiture in its history against its chairman.
Pig ButcheringCybercrime NetworksCrypto Scams
News 9 minFake Google Support Call Drained $243M in Bitcoin From a Single Victim
Three young men used a spoofed Google support call and remote-access software to drain 4,100 Bitcoin from one D.C. investor in a single night, the largest known single-victim crypto theft in history.
Impersonation ScamsPhone ScamsTech Support Scams
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