Inside a romance scam compound—and how people get tricked into being there

All this means that it is up to the technology companies themselves to dispose of their own initiative. Rarely, large technology has been behaved without legislative threats or great social or financial pressure. Companies will not do anything if they are not mandatory, nor are they imposed by the government, “and most importantly, if companies do not benefit from them, says Wang, from the University of Texas. While a group of technology companies, including Meta, Match and Coinbase, announced last year about the formation of technology against fraud, cooperation to exchange advice and best practices, experts tell us that there are no concrete measures to sign yet.

While more resources are desperately required to address the increasing problems on their platforms, social media companies such as X, Meta and others have handed over hundreds of people from their divisions and safety in recent years, which reduces their ability to address the most urgent issues. Since Trump’s re -election, Mita has pointed out a greater decline in moderation and verifying reality, a decision that was praised by the president.

However, companies may feel pressure since a handful of entities and executives in recent years have been legally responsible for criminal activity on their platforms. Changpeng Zhao, who founded Binance, the largest encrypted currency exchange in the world, was sentenced to four months in prison last April after adopting guilt in breaking the American money laundering laws, and the company was forced to lose about $ 4 billion for crimes that allowed users to overcome the sanctions. Then Alexei Bertsif, a cash founder of the hurricane, was sentenced to more than five years in prison in a Dutch prison to facilitate laundering money, among other things, Lazaros Group, the Piracy team in North Korea full of state. In August last year, the French authorities arrested Pavel Dorov, CEO of Telegram, accused him of collusion in drug smuggling and distributing sexual assault materials to children.

“I think all social media [companies] “You should really look at the state of Telegram at the present time. At the level of the CEO, I began to see countries trying to responsibility for their role in enabling great criminal activity over national on a global scale,” says Usip.

However, the multiplication of all challenges is to integrate cheap artificial intelligence and easy to use in fraud. The individuals we talked about, who often left the vehicles before adopting the wide -ranging AI AI, said that if the targets suggest a video call, they will work to deviate, or as a last resort, playing pre -recorded videos. Only one description is the use of artificial intelligence by his company; He says it’s salaries to record himself, saying different camels in ways that reflect different feelings, for the purposes of feeding the sound in the artificial intelligence model. Recently, reports have emerged about the fraudsters who used “face swap” that works in Amnesty International and sound change products so that they can impersonate their characters more convincing. “The malicious actors can exploit these models, especially open source models, to produce an unprecedented scale,” says Gabriel Tran, IST, chief analyst of technology and community at IST. “These models are intentionally seized … to serve as convincing people.”

Experts we talked to them warn that if the platforms do not pick up the pace now, you are likely to leave them behind.

From time to time, GaveSh still goes on Facebook to report pages that are believed to be fraud. He never heard.

But it works again in the tourism industry and on the way to recover from its ordeal. “I can’t say 100 % out of trauma, but I am trying to survive because I have responsibilities,” he says.