FBI shares tips to protect against AI financial fraud [Video]

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SAN ANTONIO — The FBI is warning about criminals using artificial intelligence to carry out financial fraud.

In the 2023 FBI Internet Crime Report it stated: “Today’s cyber landscape is threatened by a multitude of malicious actors.”

The agency reports that criminals have all kind of tools to conduct large-scale schemes.

Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s San Antonio Field Office, Aaron Tapp, said the number of cases dealing with financial fraud keeps growing every year.

“Each year we are seeing more and more victims of different types of financial scams,” Tapp said. “And it has us very concerned.”

He said the FBI has seen a huge increase in investment fraud, cryptocurrency and other financial schemes.

“The old scams are made more easy and more believable,” Tapp said. “What …