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Scammers are using deepfakes, 'urgent' family emergencies to get your money. Losses could reach $16B by late 2026

Scammers are using deepfakes, 'urgent' family emergencies to get your money. Losses could reach $16B by late 2026

2026-01-23  Ian Fleming

TDeepfakes use voice cloning and synthetic video to impersonate a person’s likeness in an image, video or audio clip. The technology behind this is becoming increasingly sophisticated, making these deepfakes even harder to distinguish from the real thing.


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