A threat we can’t ignore

The following is a place of guests and Ken Jon Miyachi, Co-founder of Bitmind.

According to the “Q1 2025 Hell incident report“163 scammers are appropriate more than $ 200 million from victims in the first four months of 2025. It is not only a problem or famous; it is impact Deep Frodes are no longer a little problem.

Deep used to be a fun way to make viral videos, but now criminals use it as weapons. Wrapper use artificial intelligence to make the phony voices, sometimes, and sometimes together do not deceive consumers and make private information.

Sweats in scams

The survey It says 41% of these scams targise famous people and the policies, while 34% regular target. This means you, your parents, ou your neighbor could be next. Emotional harm is worse than monetary harm. You feel violated, cheaters, or helpless.

For example, in February 202, A company lost $ 25 million in a scam. I am Using deep video discussion, pretended hacks to be the company’s financial captain and require the wire transfers to fake it right away. The worker sent the money since they thought you were doing what they have been told.

It was not until they call the corporate office they have carried out the call was bog. This was not just one thing that has done. Similar techniques have injured to the engineer, the orders, the organizations in the cinraft. If the smart people can be cheated, how can the rest of us stay safe without better defending?

Its impact

Technology used in these scams is quite a frightening. Scammers can copy someone’s voice with 85% accuracy using a few seconds of audio, as by a youtube video. It’s so harder to say if a video is Phony; 68% of individuals cannot count the difference between false and current material.

Criminal care internetation needs to do these fake, and using our own posts and videos against us. Think how a scammer can use a registration of your voice to get your family to send it money or a false video of a CEO heading a track transfer. These things are not just science fiction; they spend now.

There are more damage than only money. The survey says 32% of the deep cases involved explicit, and common content to the people to humiliar or black. 23% of crimes are financial fraud, 14% are political handling, and 13% are disinformation.

These scams do hard to believe what we read and feel online. Imagine to take a call from a loved one you needed help, just let me know was a scam. Or a fake seller stealing all owner’s money of a small owner. There are more and more than these stories, and the parties are higher.

So what can we do? Begins with educating yourself. The companies can show their employees how to put the signs of warning, like video conversations they seek for money right away. A fraud can be avoided by basic tests as to ask someone to move their head in a certain way or respond to a personal question. The companies will also limit as high as the high quality of their cees are available to the public and add the videos to make them harder.

Everyone is a goal

It’s really important for people to be supervising. Be careful what you put online. Scamers can use any audio or video registration published as a weapon. If you have a weird question, don’t do anything. You can call the person again on a number you trust or check in another method. The efforts for public assembling can help poor soups, especially among the groups that are more proper to be affected, as well as they could not understand the effects. The media literacy is not just a fashionable word; It is a shield.

Governments also have a role to play. The Semicing Study suggests that all countries have to have the same laws that define what they are deep and as we punish. The new laws of the USA say that social media sites should take the content of explicit fund in 48 hours.

First dimed Melania Trump, who talked to how you are the young, it was one of the people you put on for it. But laws are enough I’m not enough. Scammers operate in many different countries, and is not always easy to detect it. It could be a good idea to fix world criteria for the world authentication and in the content, but first, governments needed to them.

There is no long time. By 2027, deep, predicted to cost the $ 40 billion, with a 32% growth fee each year. In North America, these Scams Rose from 1,740% in 2023, and if we ingrade. But we can change.

We can fight with intelligent technology – as the systems that can detect deeply in real-time-as well as best regulations and good practices. It’s about getting back to trust we had in the digital world. The next time you get a video call or hear someone you know to ask for money, take a big breath and check again. It is worth for your peace of mind, your money, and your good name.