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Scams and frauds: Here are the tactics criminals use on you in the age of AI and cryptocurrencies

  • Written by Rahul Telang, Professor of Information Systems, Carnegie Mellon University
imageScammers often direct victims to convert cash to untraceable cryptocurrency and send it to them.Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Scams are nothing new – fraud has existed as long as human greed. What changes are the tools.

Scammers thrive on exploiting vulnerable, uninformed users, and they adapt to whatever technologies or trends dominate the moment....

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