Claims extracted
22
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
5%
1 of 22 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
69/100
Fox News's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
1
Technology
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As artificial intelligence rapidly evolves to make financial scams hyper-realistic, cybersecurity experts warn that the best defense isn't sophisticated detection software — it's good old-fashioned human skepticism.
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it → evolve → ?
While adversarial states like China and Russia leverage AI on a global scale, average Americans are most frequently targeted by cybercriminals looking to exploit personal vulnerabilities for a quick payout, according to cybersecurity expert Morgan Wright.
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Americans → leverage → Wright
"Let's go back to around 1860, when Edgar Allan Poe wrote: ‘Believe nothing that you hear and only one half that you see,’" Wright told Fox News Digital.
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Wright → go → Digital
AI technology has allowed bad actors to automate and scale personalized fraud schemes against everyday citizens.
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actors → allow → citizens
Generative tools eliminate language barriers, draft convincing phishing texts, and generate hyper-realistic voice and video clones.
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tools → eliminate → clones
By capturing just a few seconds of audio — often scraped from social media — fraudsters can convincingly replicate the voice of a family member.
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fraudsters → capture → member
Wright pointed to the case of Deborah Del Mastro, a California mother who lost thousands of dollars after scammers used AI to clone her daughter’s voice to stage a terrifying kidnapping hoax.
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scammers → point → hoax
"It's my daughter's voice," Del Mastro recalled during an interview on The CyberGuy Report podcast.
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Mastro → recall → podcast
"And she's having a panic attack."
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she → have → attack
Convinced her daughter was in immediate danger, Del Mastro transferred more than $5,000 to the scammers before realizing she had been swindled.
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she → convince → scammers
"When you can fool a mother, that's how good these things are getting," Wright said of the voice-cloning technology.
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Wright → fool → technology
"What they do is use manipulation, influence, and deceit.
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do → use → manipulation
The more urgent I can make it sound, the more you're going to lower your guard and take action."
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you → make → action
Wright, who has trained federal, state, and local law enforcement in behavioral analysis, interviewing, and interrogation — including teams at the FBI and the National Security Agency — emphasized that every scam relies on basic psychological triggers.
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scam → train → triggers
His primary advice for anyone on the receiving end of a suspicious call or message is to pause before reacting.
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advice → receive → call
"We're not storming the beaches at Normandy; you're not going to get arrested," Wright said.
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Wright → storm → Normandy
"No law enforcement agency sends you an unsolicited text saying you're about to get arrested."
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you → send → text
While AI platforms roll out updated security features, scammers continuously find ways around them, making software-based detection a constant moving target.
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detection → roll → them
"We hear about all the different models from xAI, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Gemini—they change models constantly," Wright said.
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Wright → hear → models
"So when the model changes, how effective is [detection software]?
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software → change → ?
We don't know, because this stuff is moving so fast.
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stuff → know → ?
What you see today will be drastically different tomorrow."
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see → see → What
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