AI scams increasingly use personal social media posts to craft convincing phishing attacks

Reports describe how publicly shared social media content, such as vacation photos, can be harvested by scammers to generate personalized phishing emails that appear to come from legitimate businesses like hotels.

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2026-11-03 14:40 · TechXplore AI & ML
Your social media posts could fuel the next AI scam

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