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# Your Face, Their Fraud: Deepfakes Have Entered Incognito Mode
- URL: https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/your-face-their-fraud-deepfakes-have-entered-incognito-mode/
- Published: 2025-06-06T06:03:35.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-27T05:23:05.000Z
- Description: If you think “don’t talk to strangers online” is old advice, try “don’t believe your boss, your lover, or your dead grandmother,” they might all be deepfakes now.
- Author: Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP
- Tags: News, #seo-post-1

If you think “don’t talk to strangers online” is old advice, try “don’t believe your boss, your lover, or your dead grandmother,” they might all be [deepfakes](https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/digital-ethics-speaker/) now.

We’re witnessing a global trust meltdown, and AI is the accelerant. Scammers now deploy real-time deepfakes for romance scams, job interviews, and tax fraud. With just a photo and five seconds of your voice, they can build a fake you.

One exec wired $25M to a video of a fake CFO. Others fell for cloned voices of their loved ones. Detection tools lag behind, often limited to catching their own models, while criminals just A/B test until they fool the system.

- Deepfakes in job interviews and banking
- Instructional scam videos on YouTube
- Visual cues beat AI detectors

We can’t outsource trust. I believe we need to rewire our instincts, not just our software. In a world where seeing is no longer believing, discernment becomes our most powerful defense. How do we train attention, not just detection?

Read the full article on [Wired](https://www.wired.com/story/youre-not-ready-for-ai-powered-scams/?ref=thedigitalspeaker.com).

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