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AI Used To Create Celebrity Deepfakes In Multi-Million Dollar Instagram Scam
A group of suspected scammers in Brazil using Instagram ads featuring deepfakes of supermodel Gisele Bundchen and other celebrities appears to have made millions of dollars through online fraud, according to police investigators.
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AI Chatbots Promoting Cybercrime? ChatGPT, Grok and Meta AI Are Happy to Write Phishing Emails
Concerns over AI safety persist as developers build ever-more capable models and tout red-teaming and internal safeguards. However, Gadgets 360 found that popular chatbots, ChatGPT, Grok and Meta AI, do not fully follow those protections: when prompted, they produced phishing email content that could be misused for scams, underscoring gaps in pract...
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"With Just One Click...": IPS Officer Warns Of Scam Amid Nano Banana Trend
IPS officer VC Sajjanar on X (formerly Twitter) alerted users about the danger of sharing personal information online. He emphasised that while online trends can be fun, users could face serious risks if they are careless with their private data.
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"I Said Yes": Woman Gets 'Engaged' To AI Chatbot After 'Dating' For 5 Months
Responding to critics, the woman claimed to be "fully aware" of what she's doing, adding she was not scamming people.
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Samsung Unveils AI-Driven Voice Phishing Scam Detection on One UI 8 Smartphones
Samsung is rolling out a new feature to address the threat of AI-powered voice phishing attacks. The South Korean brand has announced a ‘Voice Phishing Suspected Call Alert’ feature in One UI 8. The new functionality is available in South Korea only for now.
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WhatsApp Launches New Safety Tool, 6.8 Million Scam Centre Accounts Banned
WhatsApp has launched a new 'safety overview', which will alert a user when someone not in their contact list adds them to a new WhatsApp group that they may not recognise, as Meta's messaging platform intensified its crackdown on scams and fraud.
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A Disturbing Trend: Viral Deepfakes Promoting Fake Investment Schemes
A deepfake video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi promoting a fake investment scheme has gone viral on Facebook, posing digital risks to lakhs of potential victims.
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To Gatekeep Or Let Lose? Parents Face Tough Choices On AI
Parents are "very worried" about the future Artificial Intelligence holds for their children -- whether it's deepfakes, "the inability to distinguish between reality and AI," or "the thousands of possible new threats that I wasn't trained to detect".
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Scammer Loots Users Without A Click: Latest Call Forwarding Scam And How To Avoid It
A new scam involving call forwarding is tricking users into dialling codes that silently redirect their calls to criminals. This allows scammers to receive OTPs and impersonate victims without any suspicious links.
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AI-Powered Scams Surge Ahead Of Amazon Prime Day 2025, Warns McAfee
In India, where 96 per cent of consumers plan to shop online during the event, 71 per cent have expressed concern over AI-enabled fraud, the study has claimed.
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Soham Parekh Lied About Drone Strike During Op Sindoor To Guilt Trip Ex-Boss
Soham Parekh, the Indian tech professional accused of moonlighting at multiple US-based startups, emotionally manipulated his ex-boss - Leaping AI co-founder, Arkadiy Telegin, by citing the India-Pakistan conflict in May, Telegin asserted.
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AI Founder Accuses Indian Techie Soham Parekh Of Scamming Multiple Startups: "Fired This Guy In First Week"
A US-based AI founder has accused an Indian techie of working at multiple startups simultaneously under false pretences.
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Google Unveils India-Focused Safety Charter, Shares How It Is Using AI to Combat Online Frauds and Scams
Google unveiled its Safety Charter for India, highlighting how it is using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to identify and prevent instances of cybercrimes across its products. The Mountain View-based tech giant highlighted that with the rise of India’s digital economy, the need for trust-based systems was high. The company is now using A...
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Crypto Scams Cost Investors $4.6 Billion in 2024, Social Engineering Attacks Surge: Bitget
Bitget’s 2025 Anti-Scam Research Report estimates that global crypto scams led to losses of $4.6 billion (roughly Rs. 39,364 crore) in 2024. CEO Gracy Chen noted that AI has made these scams faster, cheaper, and more difficult to detect.
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"False Endorsements, Real Losses": AI-Enabled Financial Scams On The Rise
A digital risk firm has raised an alarm over the rapid rise of AI-enabled financial scams in India in a devastating report that analysed some cases, including a deep fake video of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
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AI Used To Create Celebrity Deepfakes In Multi-Million Dollar Instagram Scam
A group of suspected scammers in Brazil using Instagram ads featuring deepfakes of supermodel Gisele Bundchen and other celebrities appears to have made millions of dollars through online fraud, according to police investigators.
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AI Chatbots Promoting Cybercrime? ChatGPT, Grok and Meta AI Are Happy to Write Phishing Emails
Concerns over AI safety persist as developers build ever-more capable models and tout red-teaming and internal safeguards. However, Gadgets 360 found that popular chatbots, ChatGPT, Grok and Meta AI, do not fully follow those protections: when prompted, they produced phishing email content that could be misused for scams, underscoring gaps in pract...
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"With Just One Click...": IPS Officer Warns Of Scam Amid Nano Banana Trend
IPS officer VC Sajjanar on X (formerly Twitter) alerted users about the danger of sharing personal information online. He emphasised that while online trends can be fun, users could face serious risks if they are careless with their private data.
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"I Said Yes": Woman Gets 'Engaged' To AI Chatbot After 'Dating' For 5 Months
Responding to critics, the woman claimed to be "fully aware" of what she's doing, adding she was not scamming people.
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Samsung Unveils AI-Driven Voice Phishing Scam Detection on One UI 8 Smartphones
Samsung is rolling out a new feature to address the threat of AI-powered voice phishing attacks. The South Korean brand has announced a ‘Voice Phishing Suspected Call Alert’ feature in One UI 8. The new functionality is available in South Korea only for now.
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WhatsApp Launches New Safety Tool, 6.8 Million Scam Centre Accounts Banned
WhatsApp has launched a new 'safety overview', which will alert a user when someone not in their contact list adds them to a new WhatsApp group that they may not recognise, as Meta's messaging platform intensified its crackdown on scams and fraud.
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A Disturbing Trend: Viral Deepfakes Promoting Fake Investment Schemes
A deepfake video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi promoting a fake investment scheme has gone viral on Facebook, posing digital risks to lakhs of potential victims.
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To Gatekeep Or Let Lose? Parents Face Tough Choices On AI
Parents are "very worried" about the future Artificial Intelligence holds for their children -- whether it's deepfakes, "the inability to distinguish between reality and AI," or "the thousands of possible new threats that I wasn't trained to detect".
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Scammer Loots Users Without A Click: Latest Call Forwarding Scam And How To Avoid It
A new scam involving call forwarding is tricking users into dialling codes that silently redirect their calls to criminals. This allows scammers to receive OTPs and impersonate victims without any suspicious links.
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AI-Powered Scams Surge Ahead Of Amazon Prime Day 2025, Warns McAfee
In India, where 96 per cent of consumers plan to shop online during the event, 71 per cent have expressed concern over AI-enabled fraud, the study has claimed.
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Soham Parekh Lied About Drone Strike During Op Sindoor To Guilt Trip Ex-Boss
Soham Parekh, the Indian tech professional accused of moonlighting at multiple US-based startups, emotionally manipulated his ex-boss - Leaping AI co-founder, Arkadiy Telegin, by citing the India-Pakistan conflict in May, Telegin asserted.
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AI Founder Accuses Indian Techie Soham Parekh Of Scamming Multiple Startups: "Fired This Guy In First Week"
A US-based AI founder has accused an Indian techie of working at multiple startups simultaneously under false pretences.
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Google Unveils India-Focused Safety Charter, Shares How It Is Using AI to Combat Online Frauds and Scams
Google unveiled its Safety Charter for India, highlighting how it is using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to identify and prevent instances of cybercrimes across its products. The Mountain View-based tech giant highlighted that with the rise of India’s digital economy, the need for trust-based systems was high. The company is now using A...
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Crypto Scams Cost Investors $4.6 Billion in 2024, Social Engineering Attacks Surge: Bitget
Bitget’s 2025 Anti-Scam Research Report estimates that global crypto scams led to losses of $4.6 billion (roughly Rs. 39,364 crore) in 2024. CEO Gracy Chen noted that AI has made these scams faster, cheaper, and more difficult to detect.
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"False Endorsements, Real Losses": AI-Enabled Financial Scams On The Rise
A digital risk firm has raised an alarm over the rapid rise of AI-enabled financial scams in India in a devastating report that analysed some cases, including a deep fake video of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
