2024 WILL OFFER NO RESPITE AGAINST THE COVID-19-INSPIRED BOOM IN FRAUD, WARN EXPERTS

Fraud has been booming since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and the disruption of established living and working patterns, but experts warn that companies and consumers should expect more swindles in 2024, as technology develops, and scams become more sophisticated. Paul Cochrane reports.   With real-time payments being increasingly adopted globally, particularly in the USA, a fresh surge in fraud is expected. Generative artificial intelligence (AI), creating text, images or other media, is also expected to be more utilised for financial crime, as ...


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