Cybersecurity experts warn that travel scams enhanced with artificial intelligence (A.I.) are on the rise this holiday season.
Karen Zilberstein is with Guardio, a cybersecurity firm based in Tel Aviv, Israel. She says scammers are using A.I. to create realistic-looking texts, emails and even websites.
“With the surge of A.I., we’re seeing an increase in the quality of scams,” Zilberstein said. “It’s really easy with generative A.I. to compose texts that are very similar in tone and language to the original emails or text messages you will get from legitimate venues like booking sites or booking platforms.”
Zilberstein showed FOX 5 a fake website scammers created that looks nearly identical to Airbnb’s website as well as several false booking sites.
“We are also seeing that with fake websites, websites look really real. They show real venues that have been scraped from other real websites,” Zilberstein. “They show pricing that looks and feels legitimate. They …