{"id":355863,"date":"2026-03-20T09:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355863\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:27:10","slug":"the-newest-form-of-online-scam-deepfakes-as-a-service-can-clone-your-voice-and-face-using-10-seconds-of-content-from-social-media-feeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355863\/","title":{"rendered":"The newest form of online scam \u2014 deepfakes-as-a-service can clone your voice and face using 10 seconds of content from social media feeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Interpol has warned of new scam with \u2018synthetic identity kits\u2019 of victims being sold for $5 on dark web marketplaces such as LeakBase\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"TikTok was favoured by 48% of those surveyed for financial advice (PA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0f305f28-4fb8-4355-ab12-5dfb7d4e691f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">TikTok was favoured by 48% of those surveyed for financial advice (PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Artificial Intelligence (AI) \u2018agents\u2019 and deepfakes-as-a-service are part of a new wave of AI-enhanced fraud that is 4.5 times more profitable than traditional methods, according to Interpol\u2019s 2026 Global Financial Fraud Threat Assessment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The AI fraud warning comes after Europol and the FBI announced they had dismantled a major dark web forum, LeakBase, which has been used by 142,000 criminals, scammers and fraudsters to trade stolen credentials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interpol has warned of new scam with \u2018synthetic identity kits\u2019 of victims being sold for $5 on dark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[8819,220,218,2334,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-355863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-adrian-weckler","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}