{"id":221627,"date":"2026-05-28T05:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/online-scams-have-evolved-in-the-a-i-era-heres-what-to-do\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T07:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:45:24","slug":"online-scams-have-evolved-in-the-a-i-era-heres-what-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/online-scams-have-evolved-in-the-a-i-era-heres-what-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Scams Have Evolved in the A.I. Era. Here\u2019s What to Do."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/28\/technology\/personaltech\/online-scams-have-evolved-in-the-ai-era-heres-what-to-do.html\">Online Scams Have Evolved in the A.I. Era. Here\u2019s What to Do.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/28\/technology\/personaltech\/online-scams-have-evolved-in-the-ai-era-heres-what-to-do.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/28\/technology\/personaltech\/online-scams-have-evolved-in-the-ai-era-heres-what-to-do.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-28 05:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nytimes.com\">www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The rise of generative artificial intelligence has made traditional signs of internet scams, like typos or poor website quality, less reliable.<\/li>\n<li>Advances in low-cost chatbots, image generators, and voice-cloning tools enable criminals to create highly convincing fake websites and replicate identities, including impersonating family members.<\/li>\n<li>Fake stores mimicking reputable brands on social media platforms proliferate, tricking users into making purchases that turn out to be scams.<\/li>\n<li>To combat these A.I.-powered scams, experts suggest verifying the authenticity of online offers and maintaining traditional skepticism, especially if deals seem &#8220;too good to be true.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Law enforcement and tech companies are responding to the surge in these scams by implementing new technologies and taking down scam accounts and ads.<\/li>\n<li>A.I. tools are being misused to create deepfake videos of celebrities, which scammers use to endorse nonexistent products or trick fans into phony investments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online Scams Have Evolved in the A.I. Era. Here\u2019s What to Do. https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/28\/technology\/personaltech\/online-scams-have-evolved-in-the-ai-era-heres-what-to-do.html Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/05\/28\/business\/28techfix\/28techfix-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-221627","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\/221627"}],"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=221627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221632,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221627\/revisions\/221632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}