The Brief U.S. technology is being used to enhance the scam industry worldwide, according to an investigation by The Associated Press. American produced AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini has been used by scammers to operate across networks globally., The Federal Trade Commission projects that these scams cost Americans billions of dollars.



Technology from American organizations is being utilized to bolster a global expansion in the scam industry.

Watchdogs tell The Associated Press that these organizations have the technical ability to do more to protect against abuse but don't have legal and business incentives to prevent these crimes, which the Federal Trade Commission projects cost Americans nearly $200 billion in losses in 2024.

American technology is present all along the digital supply chains that connect scammers with the victims, from AI models embedded into powerful new tools to maximize workflow and produce enhanced fakes, to satellite dishes that enable scammers to avoid internet crackdowns, to internet service providers that carry traffic to the phones and computers of millions of victims.

The AP reported that it didn't find evidence to infer these companies were doing anything illegal themselves. But the abuse of their tools and tech infrastructure at scam compounds in Myanmar raises questions about how often the companies are enforcing their own terms of service, which prohibit illegal activity and outlaw fraud.

American technology used globally for scams

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American-made AI models - mainly ChatGPT and Gemini - have been used to build software permitting scammers to work across dozens of languages, surveil workers and target victims globally.



According to The Associated Press, a global internet infrastructure supports Myanmar's scam compound, which depends on services from Cogent Communications, AT T, DigitalOcean, Oracle, and others.

One in five signals from devices at four scam compounds linked to entities in Myanmar was carried by an Amercian-registered company based on analysis by the AP of over 200,000 device connections furnished by Intern

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