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Scammers Can Use AI Tools to Pinpoint Your Location Based on a Photo

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Feed Name: KnowBe4 Blog

Date Published: 2026-07-14

Date Updated: 2026-07-23

Author: KnowBe4 Team

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McAfee researchers found that freely available AI image models can identify the city and country in travel photos with about 87–91% accuracy, meaning attackers can reliably infer victims' locations from social media images and use that data to craft highly specific, believable social-engineering scams at scale.

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