Cloned Voices, Emptied Bank Accounts

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1. The FBI's 2025 Internet Crime Report recorded 1,008,597 complaints and $20.877 billion in losses, a 26% year-over-year increase and the first time IC3 logged over a million complaints in one year.SecureWorld (citing FBI IC3 2025 Internet Crime Report) · 2026-04-09
2. For the first time in IC3's roughly 25-year history, the 2025 report includes a dedicated section on artificial intelligence as a cybercrime tool.SecureWorld (citing FBI IC3) · 2026-04-09
3. IC3 logged 22,364 complaints carrying an AI-related descriptor in 2025, representing about $893 million in adjusted losses.SecureWorld (citing FBI IC3 2025 report) · 2026-04-09
4. The largest AI-related loss category in the 2025 IC3 data was investment fraud at roughly $632 million, followed by business email compromise at about $30 million and tech support scams at about $19.5 million.SpyCloud analysis of FBI IC3 2025 report · 2026-06-17 · medium confidence
5. The FBI's AI-related figures are a floor rather than a ceiling because the AI descriptor on the IC3 complaint form is voluntary and many victims never realise AI was used.Ledger analysis of FBI IC3 2025 report · 2026-05-24 · medium confidence
6. Business email compromise generated $3.046 billion in reported losses in 2025, and the FBI notes voice cloning is now layered into these attacks via follow-up calls appearing to come from a CFO or CEO.SecureWorld (citing FBI IC3 2025 report) · 2026-04-09
7. Americans over 60 reported approximately $7.7 billion in losses to internet crime in 2025, up 37% from 2024.FBI press release · 2026
8. In 2019 criminals used AI-based voice software to impersonate a German parent company's chief executive and induce a UK energy firm's CEO to wire €220,000 (about $243,000) to a Hungarian account, described at the time as the first known case of AI voice mimicry used for fraud.Forbes (reporting on The Wall Street Journal) · 2019-09-03
9. Engineering firm Arup confirmed it was the victim of a deepfake scam in which a Hong Kong employee paid out about $25 million after a video call with fabricated executives; Arup told CNN it notified Hong Kong police in January 2024 and confirmed fake voices and images were used.CNN Business · 2024-05-16
10. The Arup money was sent across 15 separate transactions, according to Hong Kong public broadcaster RTHK citing police.CNN Business · 2024-05-16 · medium confidence
11. Hong Kong police linked the case to a wider pattern, reporting six arrests in related deepfake-assisted frauds and finding AI-generated deepfakes had been used to deceive facial recognition systems on at least 20 occasions.Eftsure (citing Hong Kong police briefing by Senior Superintendent Baron Chan Sh · 2024 · medium confidence
12. On 13 November 2024 the US Treasury's FinCEN issued alert FIN-2024-Alert004 warning financial institutions about fraud schemes using deepfake media made with generative AI.FinCEN (US Treasury) · 2024-11-13
13. FinCEN said it had observed an increase in suspicious activity reports describing suspected deepfake media, particularly fraudulent identity documents used to bypass identity verification and authentication.FinCEN (US Treasury) · 2024-11-13
14. FinCEN's alert flagged AI-enabled tools being used in business email compromise, spear phishing, elder financial exploitation, family emergency schemes, romance scams and virtual currency investment scams.Davis Wright Tremaine (Financial Services Law Advisor) · 2024-11 · medium confidence
15. The FTC has warned consumers that scammers use voice cloning in family-emergency scams, needing only a short audio clip of a relative's voice taken from content posted online.FTC Consumer Advice · 2023-03
16. In February 2024 the FTC proposed extending its impersonation rule to cover impersonation of individuals, with then-Chair Lina Khan saying fraudsters are using AI tools to impersonate people with precision and at wider scale.Federal Trade Commission · 2024-02
17. The FTC ran a Voice Cloning Challenge and in April 2024 named four winning submissions, concluding that there is no single technological solution to deceptive voice cloning.Federal Trade Commission · 2024-04
18. The FBI warned in May 2025 that since April 2025 malicious actors had been sending AI-generated voice messages and texts impersonating senior US officials to build rapport before gaining access to targets' personal accounts.FBI / IC3 Public Service Announcement I-051525-PSA · 2025-05-15
19. An updated FBI advisory said such AI voice and text impersonation of state officials, White House and Cabinet-level figures and members of Congress dates back to at least 2023, and that AI-generated content has advanced to the point where it is often difficult to identify.FBI · 2025
20. UNODC reported more than a 600% increase in mentions of deepfake-related content targeting criminal groups in Southeast Asia across monitored online platforms in the first half of 2024.UNODC · 2024-10
21. A UNODC regional analyst described criminal groups' integration of generative AI into cyber-enabled fraud as a powerful force multiplier for criminal activity.UNODC · 2024-10
22. UNODC's 2026 threat assessment estimated victims across East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand lost between $88.3 billion and $114.1 billion to online scams in 2025, roughly three times the estimate for 2023.Bitget News (citing UNODC Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment for So · 2026-07-23 · medium confidence
23. UNODC has said scam networks now weaponise AI for deepfakes and voice cloning and sell cybercrime capabilities as a service, with forced labour drawn from at least 80 countries found inside compounds.UN News / Coingeek (citing UNODC) · 2026-03-17 · medium confidence
24. OpenAI banned a coordinated network of ChatGPT accounts very likely operating in or around Poipet, Cambodia, that used its models to create fake personas, generate and translate messages to scam targets, and run day-to-day scam operations.OpenAI · 2026
25. OpenAI says that since it began public threat reporting in February 2024 it has disrupted and reported over 40 networks violating its usage policies, and that threat actors typically build AI into existing workflows rather than inventing new ones.OpenAI, Disrupting malicious uses of AI (October 2025) · 2025-10
26. OpenAI's February 2026 threat report documented ChatGPT and API use in romance scams, fake legal services and influence campaigns, including a semi-automated romance and task scam targeting men in Indonesia dubbed Operation Date Bait.Help Net Security (on OpenAI's February 2026 report) · 2026-02-26 · medium confidence
27. Anthropic disclosed that in mid-September 2025 it detected a campaign in which a suspected Chinese state-sponsored group manipulated its Claude Code tool to attempt infiltration of roughly thirty global targets, using AI to execute attacks rather than merely advise.Anthropic · 2025-11
28. Deloitte's Center for Financial Services predicted generative AI could push US fraud losses to $40 billion by 2027, up from $12.3 billion in 2023, a 32% compound annual growth rate.Deloitte Insights · 2024
29. Deloitte noted a dark-web cottage industry selling scamming software from about $20 to thousands of dollars, a democratisation that is making many current anti-fraud tools less effective.Biometric Update (quoting Deloitte's assessment) · 2024-06 · medium confidence
30. The FTC reported that consumers lost $3.5 billion to imposter scams in 2025, nearly one in three fraud reports, within about $16 billion in total reported fraud losses, the highest on record and roughly 25% above 2024.Federal Trade Commission · 2026-06-15
31. In 2025 US consumers reported losing nearly $1 billion to business impersonators, with the highest losses to bank impersonators, and about $920 million to government impersonators, up from $866 million and $789 million in 2024.Federal Trade Commission · 2026-06-15
32. FTC analysis showed a more than four-fold increase since 2020 in older adults reporting losses of $10,000 or more to government or business impersonation scams, with combined losses from those over 60 losing more than $100,000 rising eight-fold from $55 million in 2020 to $445 million in 2024.Federal Trade Commission · 2025-08-07
33. The FCC warns that advances in AI now let scammers clone the voices of loved ones, making classic grandparent scam calls more believable.Federal Communications Commission

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