: Artificial intelligence is coming for seniors: AI’s dark side targets older adults in scams

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Last year, an attorney from New York lost $468,000 in a romance scam that started as a professional query on LinkedIn. The victim, a man in his 70s, answered the message from an attractive younger woman with a professional background and admirable-looking resume.

Within 75 days, he had liquidated his nest egg. 

During that time he downloaded…