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Sheriff’s detective warns of AI-enabled fraud, urges public to attend county ‘fraud school’
Summary
Winnebago County detective Lt. Mike Seelmo told the Judiciary and Public Safety Committee that AI-driven scams, deepfakes and cryptocurrency kiosks are scaling fraud and that the sheriff’s office has acquired tracing software and is expanding fraud-education sessions.
Lieutenant Mike Seelmo, who supervises the detective division’s special victims and fraud work, told the Winnebago County Judiciary and Public Safety Committee on April 6 that fraudsters are increasingly using artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency to target residents.
"Fraud is no longer just in all scams ... it's technology driven and it's scaling quickly," Seelmo said, arguing AI tools make scams more believable and allow fraudsters to reach thousands of victims at once. He described deepfake voices and AI-personalized phishing as new mechanisms that can trick people of any age.
Seelmo described a string of fraud patterns…
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