One Thing: Scammers Are in Their ‘FraudGPT’ Era

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🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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A recent diplomatic cable revealed that someone has been using artificial intelligence to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a bid to gain access to accounts or information. It comes amid a rise in deepfake scams targeting victims around the world. We look at whether law enforcement is equipped to deal with the problem – and what a different approach might look like. Guest: David Maimon, SentiLink Head of Fraud Insights/Georgia State University Professor of Criminology Have a question about the news? Have a story you think we should cover? Call us at 202-240-2895. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	How did you find out?
0:02.0	Oh, somebody called me.
0:03.0	It was a senator that called me and said, hey, did you just try to reach me and actually
0:06.0	sent me a voice recording?
0:08.0	It doesn't sound, I mean, it doesn't really sound like me.
0:10.0	If you fell for that call, you know, but maybe there was a better one that I didn't see.
0:14.0	When we learned on Tuesday of a diplomatic cable that revealed a brazen plot to impersonate U.S. Secretary
0:22.5	of State Marco Rubio, the specifics had a distinct 2025 flair to them. Someone, it's not clear
0:29.6	who at this point, had apparently used AI to generate voicemails and text messages pretending
0:35.6	to be Rubio, and then used those to reach out the high-level officials on signal, including foreign ministers and a member of Congress.
0:43.3	U.S. diplomats and foreign leaders around the world have been put on alert.
0:47.3	But we've seen voice spoofing like this before.
0:50.3	It's important that you save your vote for the November election.
0:53.3	For example, this may sound an awful lot like former President Joe Biden, but it's not.
0:59.1	Voting this Tuesday only enables the Republicans in their quest to elect Donald Trump again.
1:06.4	This robocall urging New Hampshire Democrats not to vote in last year's primary was quickly
1:12.1	flagged as AI generated and law enforcement got involved.
1:16.0	The incidents show just how easy it could be to fall for a convincing fake.
1:20.4	And even the most tech savvy among us are struggling to identify fact from fiction online
1:25.3	these days.
1:26.7	So with AI fueled scams on the rise,
1:29.5	what can we do to keep ourselves safe?
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