AI-Enabled Scams

The author argues that AI does not create a new kind of fraud but energizes existing scams by making them faster, cheaper and easier to run at scale, drawing on three presentations about AI and fraud. He describes the anatomy of a scam (contact point, victim, continued interaction, confidence), explains tactics like the "spaghetti test," repetition and information gathering, and notes that AI voice systems can screen calls and that voice cloning enables vishing. He recounts a door-to-door impostor who used details from an old alarm-company data breach and possibly AI-generated talking points, and advises never confirming details, cutting off contact and verifying independently.