Criminals cloning Brits VOICES with AI to steal cash & victims ‘don’t even realise’ they’re being raided, watchdog warns

CROOKS are using AI to clone victim's voices and set up unauthorised direct debits over the phone. That's according to a watchdog that says the shocking scheme is part of "an organised criminal operation". Many Brits will be familiar with AI in form of helpful chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's Gemini. But criminals are...


play_arrow All United Kingdom News
1 M.
Crime
ID: 8346700390235504722


Similar News expand_more


1 M. Inside the scam centres conning Brits and other victims around the world out of billions of pounds using fake romances and other cons
Crime
9 d. Moment undercover police swoop on bag thieves preying on City drinkers
Crime
1 w. Against The Grain: UK rap is hijacked by London’s police force for clicks
Crime
9 d. Moment undercover police swoop on bag thieves preying on City pub drinkers in Leadenhall Market
Crime
2 w. Summer camp paedophile and murderous butcher among UK criminals locked up in February
Crime
1 M. Police probe claims Epstein trafficked British victims through Stansted
Crime
1 M. 'Horrifying' true crime documentary that 'enraged' viewers streaming for free in the UK
Crime
6 d. 'Chilling' true crime doc on heartbreaking murders in Wales streaming for free
Crime
3 w. Locked Up: The five killers that have shocked Wales in just a few short weeks and every criminal justice caught up with
Crime
2 d. Police minister reveals her children have been victims of phone snatchers... and she has no idea if the offenders were caught because officers never got back to her
Crime
5 d. My chilling conversations with the Unabomber and America's worst serial killers when I ran a Supermax prison, revealed in The Crime Desk newsletter
Crime
3 w. Four men arrested by City of London Police for targeting pubgoers to snatch phones and steal from bank accounts
Crime
17 h. More than 25,000 crimes written off by Police Scotland in just over two years
Crime
29 h. The seven countries Brits told to 'tell us you're there' by UK government over war fears
Politics
2 w. The best British true crime shows to stream in 2026: From Netflix's Lucy Letby documentary to BBC's hunt for Arlene Fraser's killer
Crime
3 w. Global watchdog sounds alarm as cyber scams drive a new era of money laundering
Crime
3 d. Almost all UK criminals will be given same new treatment when leaving prison
Crime
7 d. Canadian living in UK says nine British money saving hacks 'changed my life'
Real Estate
7 d. Revealed: How ruthless Algerian phone snatch crime gangs are now cashing in with more violent attacks on London's super rich
Crime
2 w. Gang smuggled drugs and phones into London prisons nearly every day for months, court hears
Crime
1 w. Mail royal journalist denies ‘nonsense’ hacking claims and says stories came from sources in Prince Harry’s inner circle
Crime
1 M. 'Best British crime drama' with 'hair raising plot twist' is free to stream
Entertainment
2 w. BRYONY GORDON: The police are still riddled with rapists, abusers and bad apples. Wayne Couzens wasn't just a monstrous oddity
Crime
1 w. 'Heartbreaking' Disney+ true crime documentary viewers say 'kept them guessing' available to stream for free
Crime
3 w. There have been 59 royal arrests in UK history – Charles I was not the last before Andrew Mountbatten
Crime
1 M. Transparency International UK respond to the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten
Crime
4 d. One of FBI's most wanted fugitives found hiding in Wales has more than £20,000 in frozen bank account confiscated by court
Crime
3 w. Reebok names rap artists European ambassadors, including South London's K Trap
Culture
3 w. Two Brits arrested in Benidorm for ‘fake kidnapping plot to bag extra £725 spending money'
Crime
4 d. Brazen thieves steal £75,000 worth of jewellery and watches in Ayr home heist
Real Estate
2 w. Criminals using fake names ruthlessly went around their targets using a crowbar
Crime
3 w. British cousins who 'knifed a man in the throat after trying to chat up his friend' are revealed as cops say victim was 'millimetres from death'
Crime
3 w. Truth behind Sharon Osbourne's BRITs speech 'exposed' after 'devastating' ordeal
Politics
3 w. Inside Ian Huntley's miserable prison life: 'Queue' of rapists and terrorists who wanted to kill him. Fear of horrific 'swilling' attacks. And how being a 'full of himself' bully left him 'ripped apart like a rat', by TOM RAWSTORNE
Crime
65 h. TikTok videos from Scotland's "most violent" jail capture mayhem behind bars
Crime
6 d. Brits ‘mistaken’ about major money struggle affecting one in two people
Real Estate
5 h. Witnesses silent, killers free: The brutal Salford attack that shattered lives
Crime
2 w. Who are the three men once at the heart of Welsh politics arrested in spy probe?
Crime
1 w. BREAKING: Magaluf hotel attack gang who repeatedly raped and filmed Brit, 18, named
Crime
1 M. Coronation Street fans 'spot' clue that can save Debbie after prison sentence
Entertainment
2 w. 'Bold and compelling' crime drama from producer 50 Cent is the 'British version of Power'
Entertainment
2 w. Inside the 'vile' Red vs Blue School Wars craze sparking knife crime panic in UK
Crime
1 w. Revealed: Affluent neighbourhoods where black Londoners 'up to 48 times more likely' to be stopped and searched by police
Crime
1 M. Moment one of UK's most prolific romance fraudsters is confronted after trying to meet up with next victim
Crime
2 w. Moment thief breaks into influencer's luxury London penthouse before stealing £100,000 of jewellery and designer bags
Real Estate
2 w. 'Heartbreaking' UK true crime documentary added to Netflix that viewers call 'absolutely baffling'
Entertainment
1 w. Warning criminals are exploiting AI after record number of UK scam reports
Crime
37 h. Wayne Couzens 'petrified' as prison attacks rise and offenders disembowel themselves
Crime
3 w. After years of government cyber trouble, UK turns to automated scanning to speed fixes
Technology
Popular countries based on strong economic and political relations
Add Watch Country

arrow_drop_down