{"id":223326,"date":"2025-10-13T12:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/old-tricks-new-tech-scams-in-the-age-of-ai"},"modified":"2025-10-13T12:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:10:06","slug":"old-tricks-new-tech-scams-in-the-age-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/old-tricks-new-tech-scams-in-the-age-of-ai","title":{"rendered":"Old tricks, new tech: Scams in the age of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/old-tricks-new-tech-scams-in-the-age-of-ai.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a college student, Gabriel Aguilar fell victim to an elaborate scam. The fraudsters posed as employers offering job opportunities that provided quick income.<\/p>\n<p>He completed what seemed like a legitimate interview process, was offered a position and was even sent a check to purchase a laptop\u2014which included a note from the perpetrators to send them the change. The <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/scam\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">scam<\/a> was to unfold with the check bouncing and Dr. Aguilar being out his own money. Thankfully, his bank flagged the check because of typos and errors.<\/p>\n<p>Aguilar, now an assistant professor of technical writing and professional communication in The University of Texas at Arlington\u2019s Department of English, examines how today\u2019s scammers are employing artificial intelligence (AI) to help con the public\u2014in particular, the Latino population, which is often targeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a college student, Gabriel Aguilar fell victim to an elaborate scam. The fraudsters posed as employers offering job opportunities that provided quick income. He completed what seemed like a legitimate interview process, was offered a position and was even sent a check to purchase a laptop\u2014which included a note from the perpetrators to send [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}