cybercrime-related losses have more than doubled, from USD 192 million to USD 484 million, driven primarily by AI-facilitated scams
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Digital sextortion and online harassment, often facilitated by AI-generated deepfakes…

This article reads like “oh no! Africa is cutting into the profits of scammers from the global North! We have to make it illegal there, so they don’t reduce the profit margins from our scams!”