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Detective Jones warns residents: be skeptical of AI‑generated scams and lock down social media privacy
Summary
Detective Wayne Jones and the program hosts discussed how AI can be used to create fake accounts, synthetic media and phone scams; they urged skepticism about offers that seem 'too good to be true' and advised limiting what you post about travel and sensitive documents.
Detective Wayne Jones warned that artificial intelligence and social media have changed how criminals operate and urged residents to be cautious online.
Jones said criminals can use AI to create fake videos, synthetic phone calls and counterfeit accounts that are used to defraud people. "They're using AI to sometimes confuse and fraud people, creating, fake accounts, fake, phone calls for individuals," he said, adding that investigating and proving AI manipulation is a growing challenge.
The hosts and Jones offered concrete advice: be skeptical of offers that sound too good to be true, avoid posting travel plans or photographs of sensitive identification, tighten account privacy settings, and parents should monitor the apps their children use. Jones also described undercover online operations where officers posed as minors to identify predators and recounted a trafficking case that used ride‑share and LPR data to trace a suspect between states.
