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ChatGPT-4o can be used for autonomous voice-based scams
Researchers have shown that it’s possible to abuse OpenAI’s real-time voice API for ChatGPT-4o, an advanced LLM chatbot, to conduct financial scams with low to moderate success rates. ChatGPT-4o is OpenAI’s latest AI model that brings new enhancements, such as integrating text, voice, and vision inputs and outputs. Due to these new features, OpenAI integrated various safeguards to detect and…
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Spot 5 Common Crypto Scams Before It’s Too Late
Quick Links Cryptocurrency Phishing Scams Fraudulent Crypto Platforms I remember the excitement of seeing my very first Bitcoin ATM in our local mall. Cryptocurrency was taking off, particularly Bitcoin and Ethereum. But with that rise, so have crypto scams—and no one is immune. Cryptocurrency Phishing Scams Americans lost $5.6 billion last year in crypto fraud scams, the FBI said in…
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Digital Scams More Likely to Hurt Black and Latino Consumers
In particular, a 2021 FTC report, “Serving Communities of Color” (PDF), notes that members of predominantly Black and Latino communities who reported scams are more likely than those in white communities to have conducted their transactions using cash, cryptocurrency, or money orders, which offer minimal fraud protections, while members of predominantly white communities are more likely to have used credit…
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