AI is perfecting scam emails, making phishing hard to catch

AI chatbots have made scam emails harder to spot and the tells we’ve all been trained to look for — clunky grammar, weird phrasing — utterly useless.

Scammers are raking in more than ever from basic email and impersonation schemes. Last year, the FBI estimates, they made off with a whopping $16.6 billion. Thwarting AI-written scams will require a new playbook that leans more on users verifying messages and companies detecting scams before they hit inboxes, experts say.

ChatGPT and other chatbots are helping non-English-speaking scammers write typo-free messages that closely mimic trusted senders. “The idea that you’re going to train people to not open [emails] that look fishy isn’t going to work for anything anymore,” Chester Wisniewski, global field CISO at Sophos, told Axios.

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