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FinCEN alert on fraud schemes involving deepfake media

Image of a woman looking into an ipda with a computer monitor in the background mentioning deepfake technology.
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Alert is part of Treasury’s broader effort to provide information on opportunities and challenges of AI.

The US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an alert to help financial institutions identify fraud schemes associated with the use of deepfake media created with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools.

The alert explains typologies associated with these schemes, provides red flag indicators to assist with identifying and