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Sources for Fake customer support

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FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center · December 2024 Official public advisory

Criminals Use Generative Artificial Intelligence to Facilitate Financial Fraud (original source, new tab)

Documents fraud uses of generated text, images, voice and video; does not quantify prevalence of each method.

Google Search Central Platform policy

Spam policies for Google web search (original source, new tab)

Defines scaled content abuse by purpose and value, not simply by whether AI was used.

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