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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Lisa O'Carroll Brussels correspondent

AI fuelling dating and social media fraud, EU police agency says

A person taps an icon on a dating app on a mobile phone
AI is making it easier to carry out fraud using dating sites, Europol officials said. Photograph: Tero Vesalainen/Alamy

Artificial intelligence, combined with wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, is fuelling a boom in fraud on dating and social media apps, officials at Europol have said.

Speaking to the Guardian, the agency’s top financial crime experts said scripts generated by artificial intelligence enable criminals to target multiple victims at once.

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