{
  "id": 13821800,
  "title": "Scamming Becomes $422 Billion Business With AI Assistance",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/11/scamming-becomes-422-billion-business-with-ai-assistance",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-11T22:46:29.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PYMNTS",
    "slug": "pymnts",
    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/cybersecurity/fraud-prevention/2026/scamming-becomes-422-billion-business-with-ai-assistance/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Like many industries, scamming is getting an artificial intelligence-powered upgrade. That’s according to a report Saturday (Oct. 10) by Bloomberg News, citing data from the Global Anti-Scam Alliance estimating victims lost $442 billion across 42 countries last year, more than some valuations for the worldwide cocaine trade. “It’s just gotten so cheap and so easy,” […] The post Scamming Becomes…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}