The upcoming midterm elections in November offer a fertile environment for scammers to exploit, with schemes that include impersonating political candidates.
Scammers could use names, logos, slogans, and images of political candidates to elicit campaign contributions, steal personal information, and engage in other deceptive practices such as merchandise sales with no product delivery, the FBI warned in an Oct. 15 public service announcement.
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used in fraudulent schemes, with scammers deploying AI tools to generate highly realistic voices, images, and written messages for impersonation attempts.
Besides candidates, the fraudsters imitate government entities and trusted contacts of the target….