Report: AI-Assisted Fraud is Surging

AI-generated fraud—synthetic documents, text deepfakes, and selfie-based deepfakes—has industrialized and overtaken physical forgery according to an AU10TIX report. Dating and entertainment platforms are especially vulnerable, exhibiting high deepfake detection failure rates that enable large-scale romance scams, catfishing, and account farming; the report urges deployment of automated defenses and targeted deepfake simulation training to mitigate the threat.