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Deepfake Voices and Faces in Fraud: What Is Known in 2026
Fraud that uses synthetic voices and video has moved from rare to routine in less than a decade. Most of it is still conventional social engineering: a believable story, urgency, and a request to move money. A cloned voice or a faked face makes that request more convincing.
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How Golden Triangle Scam Syndicates Use AI
Criminal groups based in the borderlands of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand, and linked networks in Cambodia, run industrial-scale fraud from fortified compounds staffed partly by trafficked workers. They have adopted generative AI quickly.
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What FBI Data Says About Fraud, Scams and AI
Americans reported US$20.877 billion in losses to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in 2025, up 26% from 2024 and the highest on record. Investment fraud, mostly cryptocurrency scams, was the largest category. People aged 60 and over reported the most losses.
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The UAE's US$35 Million Deepfake Voice Fraud and What Followed
The best-documented deepfake case connected to the UAE is the January 2020 fraud first reported by Forbes in October 2021. A branch manager received a call from what sounded like a company director he knew. Emails from the "director" and from a lawyer named "Martin Zelner" backed up the call.
- How AI voices helped fraudsters drain €95 million from Italy’s largest bank How a cloned voice and a fake WhatsApp from the CEO pulled off a transnational heist of more than $100 million from one of Italy's biggest banks. Inside the three-day scam that sent money racing from Milan to China, Portugal and into Bitcoin, and why nearly half of it is still missing.