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Security Hot Takes: Is This Real? How to Respond to AI Scams
AI is making fraud more convincing, but a few simple habits still work. This episode explains five common AI-enabled scams and gives you practical steps to check what's real, respond, and help others do the same.
Intermediate
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Security Hot Takes: Is This Real? How to Respond to AI Scams
AI is making fraud more convincing, but a few simple habits still work. This episode explains five common AI-enabled scams and gives you practical steps to check what's real, respond, and help others do the same.
Intermediate
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What you'll learn
AI has made scams cheaper to run and harder to spot. In 2025 the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported more than 22,000 AI-related complaints and $893 million in losses, the first year it tracked AI separately, and warned that AI-generated content is becoming increasingly difficult to detect. The old advice to look for typos, odd voices, or glitchy video no longer works reliably.
In this episode, Security Hot Takes: Is This Real? How to Respond to AI Scams, you'll look at five current AI-enabled scams: a cloned voice in a family emergency, a deepfake boss on a video call, a romance that turns into an investment, a famous face endorsing a fake platform, and a fake AI tool. We break down each one briefly and then focus on what to do about it.
Released for Cybersecurity Awareness Month, this episode is for anyone who has wondered whether a call, message or video is real, including security and IT professionals who end up as family tech support. You'll take away a short set of habits you can practice and share, and a clear idea of what to do if you've already paid.
Security Hot Takes: Is This Real? How to Respond to AI Scams
Intermediate
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Matt has a degree in Chemical engineering and a PhD in mathematical chemistry. He is also a GIAC certified incident handler and penetration tester and has regulated cyber security in the UK civil nuclear sector for many years.
Michael Teske is an Author Evangelist with Pluralsight helping people elevate their skills. He has 20+ years of experience in IT Ops, including 17 as an IT instructor at a community college.
