{"meta":{"database":"Global Social Engineering Impact Database","license":"CC BY 4.0 — attribute to Netarx Social Engineering Incident Database","url":"https://global-social-engineering-impact-da.vercel.app/incidents/2024-fbi-warns-criminals-are-using-generative-ai-to-scale-voice-clone-and-ide"},"incident":{"title":"FBI warns criminals are using generative AI to scale voice-clone and identity fraud","date":"2024-12-03","date_precision":"day","victim_org":"US consumers, including seniors targeted by family-emergency voice clones (multi-victim campaign)","sector":"Consumer","country":"United States","primary_vector":"Voice Clone / Audio Deepfake","secondary_vectors":["Deepfake Video Call","Romance / Investment Scam","Spear Phishing (Email)"],"ai_involvement":"Confirmed AI-enabled","ai_notes":"The entire advisory concerns criminal use of generative AI: AI text for phishing and fake profiles, AI images for fake IDs and personas, voice cloning to impersonate relatives and account holders, and real-time video synthesis to impersonate executives and authorities.","outcomes":["Wire Fraud / Financial Loss","Identity Theft","Extortion","Cryptocurrency Theft"],"loss_usd":null,"loss_note":"The advisory does not publish an aggregate loss figure for AI-enabled fraud.","records_affected":null,"threat_actor":null,"summary":"On 3 December 2024 the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center published an advisory titled Criminals Use Generative Artificial Intelligence to Facilitate Financial Fraud. It documents AI-generated text used for phishing, fake social media profiles and fraudulent investment sites; AI-generated images used for profile photos, fabricated identification documents and disaster imagery for fake charity appeals; and voice and video synthesis used to impersonate relatives, account holders and executives.","how_it_worked":"Voice cloning is the pivotal technique for consumer harm. A short sample of a person's speech, readily available from social media video, is enough to synthesise a distressed relative calling to say they have been in an accident or arrested and need money immediately. The lever is the recognisable voice of a loved one under duress, which suppresses verification instincts far more effectively than any script. The same technology is used to satisfy bank voice authentication as an account holder, and real-time video synthesis extends it to live calls impersonating executives or providing proof of legitimacy to a romance or investment target. AI translation also strips the grammatical errors that once exposed foreign operators.","lessons":"The FBI's own recommendation is the practical control: agree a family or organisational verification code word in advance, and independently call back on a known number before acting on any urgent request.","confidence":"Confirmed","sources":[{"title":"Criminals Use Generative Artificial Intelligence to Facilitate Financial Fraud","url":"https://www.ic3.gov/PSA/2024/PSA241203","publisher":"FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center"}],"entry_type":"benchmark","slug":"2024-fbi-warns-criminals-are-using-generative-ai-to-scale-voice-clone-and-ide","year":2024,"loss_kind":null,"url":"https://global-social-engineering-impact-da.vercel.app/incidents/2024-fbi-warns-criminals-are-using-generative-ai-to-scale-voice-clone-and-ide"}}