Imagine you are meeting Someone modern. Whether in a dating application or social media, you have a chance to get online and start talking. They are real and related, so you quickly pull it out of DM to a platform such as Telegram or WhatsApp. You exchange photos and even video conversation. You start to feel comfortable. Suddenly they raise money.
Maybe they need to cover the costs of their access to Wi-Fi. Or try this modern cryptocurrency. You really should enter this early! And then, only after it is too tardy, do you realize that the person you talked to was in fact not real.
They were deep counterfeit that hid in real time, hiding the face of someone who cheated.
This scenario may seem too dystopian or science fictional to make it real, but it happened to countless people. Over the past few years, with spikes in the possibilities of generative artificial intelligence, fraudsters can now create realistic false faces and voices to mask their own in real time. Experts warn that these deep cabinets can pay stunning online fraud, from romance to employment to tax fraud.
David Maimon, head of observations about fraud at the Sentilink identity verification company and a professor of criminology at Georgia State University, has been following the evolution of Romance frauds of AI and other types of frauds for six years. “We see a dramatic increase in the volume of deep wardrobes, especially compared to 2023 and 2024.” – says Maimon.
“It wasn’t all. We’re talking about maybe four or five a month,” he says. “Now we see hundreds of them every month on the entire board, which is amazing.”
Deepfake is already used in various online fraud. For example, one financial employee in Hong Kong paid $ 25 million A latch, which poses as the company’s financial director in a deep video conversation. Some deepfake cheaters even published Instructional videos On YouTube, which have a reservation as “only” pranks and educational goals “. These films usually open with a romantic fraud in which a handsome young man generated by AI talks to an older woman.
More established deep cabinets-as previously rendered by the video celebrities or politics, and not live fake-have become more widespread. Last year, a pensioner in Fresh Zealand lost around $ 133,000 For the investment fraud of cryptocurrencies after watching a Facebook advertisement with a deep witness of the premiere of the country encouraging people to buy.
Maimon claims that Sentilink began to see deep cabinets used to create bank accounts to rent an apartment or get involved in tax fraud. He says that the growing number of companies also saw deep cabinets in interviews.
“€”, which requires people to be online and which supports the possibility of swaping a face with someone “, which will be available and open to fraud – says Maimon.