{"id":313715,"date":"2026-03-05T04:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/313715\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T04:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:54:07","slug":"inland-revenues-top-boss-used-in-ai-generated-scam-prompts-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/313715\/","title":{"rendered":"Inland Revenue\u2019s top boss used in AI-generated scam, prompts warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cUnfortunately, the use of images and artificially generated likenesses is on the increase with investment scams on social media platforms and websites being a major contributor to New Zealanders losing $265 million to fraud last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A social media scam using an image of a man said to be Inland Revenue commissioner Peter Mersi.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A social media scam using an image of a man said to be Inland Revenue commissioner Peter Mersi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">Inland Revenue says it received more than 3000 reports of scams from the public in the three months to the end of February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIgnore or delete any ads like those used,\u201d Lynch said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cTo protect yourself, use ad-blockers when browsing the web, change social media settings to restrict or limit ads, and change settings to block calls and texts from unknown numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cFrom past experience, we know that scammers are aware of important tax periods and increase their attempts to rip off Kiwis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">Lynch urged Kiwis to be extra vigilant and watch out for scammers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cUnfortunately, the use of images and artificially generated likenesses is on the increase with investment scams on social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[3041,365,98659,363,364,4282,71,121684,78,12620,1073,111,139,69,12064,48047,8244,166476,1461,1072,145,3010,13797,1455],"class_list":["post-313715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-agency","tag-ai","tag-aigenerated","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-boss","tag-from","tag-impersonating","tag-in","tag-inland","tag-media","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prompted","tag-prompts","tag-recent","tag-revenues","tag-scam","tag-social","tag-technology","tag-top","tag-used","tag-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}