{"id":807146,"date":"2026-10-19T02:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T02:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/807146\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T02:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T02:36:13","slug":"dont-fall-for-this-how-to-protect-yourself-from-ai-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/807146\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t fall for this &#8211; how to protect yourself from AI scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Be careful where you buy from, shoppers are being warned as criminals use AI to supercharge scams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some fraudsters have made websites for fake retailers that claim to be family-owned firms selling quality UK-made products. Images may show a UK High Street with Union Jack flags in shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If you order you&#8217;re likely to find a product either never arrives, or is a cheap, mass-produced item from a country such as China, trading standards officers say. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">AI-generated images like this, as well as voice cloning and deepfake videos are increasingly being used to trick people out of their money, according to National Trading Standards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the first time, it has drawn up an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltradingstandards.uk\/uploads\/AI%20Scam%20Watchlist.pdf\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI scam watchlist, external<\/a> highlighting some of the tools and techniques criminals are using.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Be careful where you buy from, shoppers are being warned as criminals use AI to supercharge scams. Some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-807146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}