{"id":22283,"date":"2026-03-12T08:37:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/convincing-ai-scams-drove-uk-fraud-cases-to-record-444000-last-year\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T08:37:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:37:52","slug":"convincing-ai-scams-drove-uk-fraud-cases-to-record-444000-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/convincing-ai-scams-drove-uk-fraud-cases-to-record-444000-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Convincing\u2019 AI scams drove UK fraud cases to record 444,000 last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Criminals using artificial intelligence tools to take over mobile, bank and online shopping accounts, says Cifas<\/p>\n<p>Criminals are increasingly exploiting AI technology to take over people\u2019s mobile, banking and online shopping accounts, the UK\u2019s leading anti-fraud body has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a record number of scams were reported to the national fraud database, fuelled by AI, which allows for large-scale deception on \u201cindustrialised\u201d levels, according to Cifas, the fraud prevention organisation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2026\/mar\/12\/ai-scams-uk-fraud-artificial-intelligence-mobile-bank-online-shopping-cifas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d02e10f33971708ab6b2f919a5519138caa8a38e\/264_0_3306_2645\/master\/3306.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=77b74f1430f7354152db8efd52777470\" title=\"\u2018Convincing\u2019 AI scams drove UK fraud cases to record 444,000 last year\" \/>Criminals using artificial intelligence tools to take over mobile, bank and online shopping accounts, says Cifas<br \/>\nCriminals are increasingly exploiting AI technology to take over people\u2019s mobile, banking and online shopping accounts, the UK\u2019s leading anti-fraud body has warned.<br \/>\nLast year, a record number of scams were reported to the national fraud database, fuelled by AI, which allows for large-scale deception on \u201cindustrialised\u201d levels, according to Cifas, the fraud prevention organisation. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criminals using artificial intelligence tools to take over mobile, bank and online shopping accounts, says Cifas Criminals are increasingly exploiting AI technology to take over people\u2019s mobile, banking and online shopping accounts, the UK\u2019s leading anti-fraud body has warned. Last year, a record number of scams were reported to the national fraud database, fuelled by &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/convincing-ai-scams-drove-uk-fraud-cases-to-record-444000-last-year\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Convincing\u2019 AI scams drove UK fraud cases to record 444,000 last year<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22283"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}