phone scammers

The voice assistant API reveals the dark side of using modern technology. Scientists from the United States have proven that OpenAI's Realtime API for voice communication can be used to automate telephone fraud. The cost of one successful fraud was less than a dollar. Fears that voice AI...

The department will be able to restrict calls as part of the fight against fraud. The head of Roskomnadzor, Andrei Lipov, said at the Spektr-2024 conference that the agency "may restrict calls through messengers" as part of the fight against fraud. "This is a tough option, which is possible as...

As a result of carrying out a complex of operational search measures, employees of the Department for combating cybercrime of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Volgograd region, with the assistance of colleagues from the district police department and...

UK law enforcement agencies have announced the closure of the Russian Coms platform, which was used by hundreds of scammers to deceive victims around the world. The platform, which was launched in 2021, resulted in tens of millions of pounds ' worth of financial losses, with around 170,000...

A courier and two cryptocurrency traders were detained in Minsk for aiding telephone scammers. BelTA learned this from the Interior Ministry. Two elderly Minsk women applied to the Oktyabrsky district police department. They believed the scammers and lost about Br70 thousand in the equivalent...

In the four months of this year, fraudsters fraudulently lured a total of 7.081 million euros from customers of the four largest Latvian banks, which is 2.1 times more than it was in the first four months of 2023, according to published data from the Finance Latvia Association. In total, in the...

The investigative unit of the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Altai Territory has completed the investigation of a criminal case initiated on the fact of fraud and illegal turnover of payment funds, in which two residents...

The Investigation Department of the Minsk City Police Department has revealed the details of the investigation of a criminal case on fraud on a particularly large scale as part of an organized group. According to the investigation, in October 2022, a 15-year-old teenager wrote in a messenger to...

On December 19, 2023, the Almaty District Court sentenced two organizers of P2P transactions to a real term, considering them participants in a fraudulent scheme. This is reported by the Cartesius law agency. The investigation against the defendants began a year and a half ago. According to the...

The Russian Interior Ministry reports on a new scheme of telephone fraudsters. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia reports a sharp increase in the number of cases when telephone scammers from Ukraine deceive Russians not only for money, but also in order to involve them in illegal...