Signal AI-generated celebrity videos used to lure scam investors

Summary

The report observes that organised crime groups are making growing use of technology to protect their operations and keep ahead of law enforcement. As a leading example, AI-generated videos showing the consumer finance broadcaster Martin Lewis and other celebrities were used as bait to draw victims into fraudulent investment schemes. Technology can also help conceal communications and payments, so it can be exploited across every kind of serious and organised crime. On the other side, law enforcement and government are adopting modern technology to pursue offenders and to stop people becoming victims. In its AI chapter the report likewise warns that generative AI can enable criminal activity including fraud.