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Local Motion: Fraud Part 2 - Not So Fast: What Every Coloradan Should Know About Fraud

When Phil Weiser says it’s more dangerous than ever to be a consumer, he’s not exaggerating. Colorado’s Attorney General opened the second episode in KVNF’s Local Motion series on fraud with a warning for listeners: “You have a lot of different ways you can be defrauded.”

Some of those schemes are decades old — but others are frighteningly new. With tools like artificial intelligence and information gathered from social media, scammers are simulating the voices of loved ones and calling targets with urgent demands for cash, Bitcoin, or gift cards.

Because of social media, Weiser explains…

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