Meta He warned Internet users on Wednesday who are careful with online acquaintances who promise a romance but want money, since scammers use false personalities to take advantage of those who are looking for love.
“This is a new tool in the Arsenal of the scammers,” the director of Global Threat Intest Policy, David Agranovich, told reporters.
“These scammers constantly evolve; We have to evolve to keep things right, ”he added.
Meta applications family detection systems, which includes Instagram and WhatsApp, They are largely based on behavioral patterns and technical signals instead of imageswhich means that they spy the activity of the scammers despite the tricks of artificial intelligence (AI), according to Agranovich.
“This makes our detection and application somewhat more resistant to generative AI,” said Agranovich. To do this, he set an example of a recently disrupted scam that, apparently, originated in Cambodia and headed to people in Chinese and Japanese languages.
OpenAI researchers determined that the “scam compound” It seemed to be using the tools of the San Francisco artificial intelligence company to generate and translate contentaccording to goal.
The generative AI technology has existed for more than a year, but in recent months its use by the scammers was strengthened, the “ethical hacker” and executive director of SocialProof Security, Rachel Tobac, said during the informative meeting.
Genai tools, available for free in the main companies, allow scammers to change their faces and voices in video calls to impersonate someone who are not.
“You can also use these false bots that allow you to create a character or make phone calls using a voice clone without the need for a human intervening”Tobac said.
“They are called agents, but they are not used for customer service. They are used for scams automatized”.
Valentine
The isolation and discouragement that can accompany the winter climate in the northern hemisphere, together with the Valentine’s Holiday this February 14, are considered a moment of opportunities for the scammers.
“We definitely see an influx of scammers who take advantage of that loneliness in the middle of winter”Tobac said.
The main objective of the scammer is money, with the tactics of generating trust quickly and then inventing a reason to need cash or personal data that can be used to access financial accounts, according to Tobac.
“Being politely paranoid helps a lot, as well as verifying that people are the ones who claim to be,” Tobac said.
According to Agranovich, the scammers operate throughout the range of social applications, and goal only sees a part of the activity.
Last year, Goal eliminated more than 408,000 western Africa countries that scammers used to impede military personnel or entrepreneurs to court people In Australia, the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States and other places, according to the technological giant.
In addition to dismantling scam networks, goal is testing facial recognition technology to verify possible online imposters detected by their systems or denounced by users.