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National
William Ton

Next-level scammers move into the AI realm

Australia's organised criminals are harnessing increasingly powerful artificial intelligence tools to create elaborate scams.

Whether it's a fake phone call using audio grabs of Queensland Premier Steven Miles to persuade someone to invest in cryptocurrency or a video meeting where everyone on the call is a deepfake demanding the transfer of millions of dollars, scams are increasingly hard to spot.

Bad actors are taking things to the next level, stitching together digital sound bites and online video to give their ploys additional credibility, according to forensics expert Stan Gallo from accounting firm BDO.

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