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Rise of sophisticated AI-driven deepfake impersonation scams

Overview

Cybersecurity authorities are warning of evolving deepfake scams that use artificial intelligence to impersonate trusted individuals. In India, SEBI has warned of the ‘Boss Scam,’ where fraudsters use AI-generated video and voice cloning to impersonate executives. Similarly, the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) has issued warnings regarding criminals cloning the voices and images of relatives or colleagues. In Europe, these crimes are estimated to cause losses of approximately 8,000 euros per minute. Newer tactics include AI-powered phone scams, such as ‘SocialNext’ using an AI digital assistant to impersonate social media customer service. In Australia, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) reported a 182 per cent increase in scams removed in FY26, noting that ‘AI is making investment scams more convincing and harder to detect.’ Investment scams emerged as the largest fraud-loss category in both Australia and the United States in 2025, with losses reaching $837.7 million and $7.9 billion, respectively. Fraudsters are utilizing deepfake advertisements that impersonate financial professionals to direct users to coordinated WhatsApp groups. Furthermore, AI chatbots are proving highly effective in ‘pig butchering’ scams—long-term schemes designed to build emotional trust. Recent developments show scammers are increasingly scraping personal data from social media and data breaches to build highly personalized scripts. In Vietnam, experts warn that criminals are leveraging AI and big data to impersonate influential figures and are reportedly developing tools to bypass biometric authentication used in online payments. In the cryptocurrency sector, blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs reports that 2026 losses from deepfake scams have already exceeded the previous year’s total by 263%. TRM Labs’ AI-in-Crime Adoption Index identifies scams as the only category of crypto-crime where AI has reached a “Mature” level of adoption, with AI-related reports rising approximately 13-fold since 2022.

Entities

Sarah Court · Australian Securities and Investments Commission · FPT · Cash App · FTC

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Timeline

  1. 2 days ago

    [TECHNOLOGY] 4 sources
    AI and deepfake technology drive rise in sophisticated online fraud

    Criminals in Vietnam are increasingly using AI and deepfake technology to impersonate individuals and bypass biometric security, utilizing stolen personal data to execute highly convincing online scams.

  2. 4 days ago

    [TECHNOLOGY] 4 sources
    AI-driven impersonation scams target bank customers

    Sophisticated AI scams and caller ID spoofing are enabling high-level impersonation fraud, as seen in a recent North Carolina case where a woman lost $6,000 to scammers posing as her bank.

  3. 4 days ago

    [TECHNOLOGY] 2 sources
    AI and deepfakes drive surge in sophisticated investment fraud

    AI-driven investment fraud is escalating, with deepfake ads and chatbots being used to orchestrate pump-and-dump schemes and “pig butchering” scams that outperform human scammers in building victim trust.

  4. 5 days ago

    [TECHNOLOGY] 2 sources
    Cybersecurity threats rise via Telegram insider recruitment and AI-driven financial fraud

    TrendAI warns of a Telegram-based market recruiting employees to sell internal corporate access, while the French AMF blacklists BitKeltTrade for using AI-driven impersonation to commit financial fraud.

  5. 7 days ago

    [TECHNOLOGY] 23 sources
    AI agents and brand impersonation drive new wave of cyberattacks

    Cybercriminals are weaponizing AI by impersonating trusted brands like Claude and ChatGPT, and targeting OpenClaw registries with malicious packages to steal data and cryptocurrency.

  6. 8 days ago

    [CRIME] 4 sources
    AI-powered phone scams impersonating Facebook experts

    Fraudsters are using AI-generated voices with Austrian accents to impersonate Facebook and Instagram business support to target individuals with fake marketing consultation offers.

  7. 9 days ago

    [BUSINESS] 3 sources
    ASIC warns of rising AI-generated investment scams

    ASIC reports a surge in AI-driven investment scams, including deepfake videos of public figures like Michele Bullock and Alan Kohler used to promote unlicensed cryptocurrency platforms.

  8. 13 days ago

    [TECHNOLOGY] 2 sources
    Bulgarian National Bank warns of AI-driven deepfake financial scams

    The Bulgarian National Bank warns of rising AI-driven deepfake scams where criminals clone voices and images to steal funds. Experts report massive daily losses across Europe due to these sophisticated tactics.

  9. 15 days ago

    [TECHNOLOGY] 4 sources
    Deepfake scams use AI impersonation to target individuals and businesses

    Deepfake scams use AI voice and video cloning to impersonate trusted figures. Experts urge strict verification protocols and multi-layered technical defenses to combat these sophisticated hybrid threats.

  10. about 1 month ago

    [CRIME] 4 sources
    India's SEBI warns firms of AI‑driven 'Boss Scam' impersonation fraud

    SEBI warned Indian firms of the AI‑driven “Boss Scam,” where fraudsters impersonate CEOs via deepfakes and malware to steal funds, urging verification and reporting of incidents.

Sources

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