{"id":193772,"date":"2026-03-07T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/forget-robocalls-how-scammers-are-using-ai-to-get-your-money\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T14:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T19:45:09","slug":"forget-robocalls-how-scammers-are-using-ai-to-get-your-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/forget-robocalls-how-scammers-are-using-ai-to-get-your-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget robocalls. How scammers are using AI to get your money."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/2026\/03\/forget-robocalls-the-new-way-scammers-are-trying-to-get-your-money-ai.html\">Forget robocalls. How scammers are using AI to get your money.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/2026\/03\/forget-robocalls-the-new-way-scammers-are-trying-to-get-your-money-ai.html\">https:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/2026\/03\/forget-robocalls-the-new-way-scammers-are-trying-to-get-your-money-ai.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-07 14:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nj.com\">www.nj.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scammers are increasingly utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance their fraudulent schemes, according to a recent report by the National Consumers League.<\/li>\n<li>Phishing and spoofing scams increased significantly by 85.6% in 2025, and median losses from these scams doubled from $1,000 to $2,060.<\/li>\n<li>Investment scams resulted in the highest median loss at $30,000, followed by romance scams with a median loss of $15,000.<\/li>\n<li>AI tools are being used to craft highly realistic phishing emails and cloned voices, making fraudulent messages more convincing and harder for consumers to detect.<\/li>\n<li>Nearly half of scam victims reported their first contact with fraudsters was online, marking a shift from robocalls to web-based contact.<\/li>\n<li>The top 10 scams revealed include phishing\/spoofing, internet merchandise, prizes\/sweepstakes, investment scams, advance fee loans, fake check scams, romance scams, family\/friend imposter scams, home repair frauds, and credit repair scams.<\/li>\n<li>Fraud reports from young adults aged 26 to 45 are rising, indicating that while older consumers are still significantly impacted, scammers are increasingly targeting younger demographics.<\/li>\n<li>The National Consumers League shares complaint data with law enforcement and consumer groups to identify fraud trends and support enforcement actions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget robocalls. How scammers are using AI to get your money. https:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/2026\/03\/forget-robocalls-the-new-way-scammers-are-trying-to-get-your-money-ai.html Publish Date: 2026-03-07&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/resizer\/v2\/LRS6A4AGF5D3FEMGNBZYS3QUMA.png?auth=caa5e9a9970f0b995c30b7a01ae63c844c0e5f1b199cc839cdf2062cc05b4842&width=1280&smart=true&quality=90","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-193772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193774,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193772\/revisions\/193774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}