Álvaro Uribe criticized a false investment project in his name on social networks: “This is a scam”

Álvaro Uribe condemned a scam in which his image is being used – credit EFE/ Luis Eduardo Noriega Arboleda – credit REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez

Cybercriminals with artificial intelligence have found that committing digital fraud in Latin America, as is happening around the world, is a deadly alliance. Organized crime gangs extend their tentacles by taking advantage of these accessible technologies that do not require large outlays or expertise.

Digital scams have grown to unprecedented levels of sophistication, according to Interpol. This sophistication is achieved without requiring advanced technical knowledge and with modest financial investment.

In fact, with the use of artificial intelligence they use the image of various influential personalities to attract their followers to their scams. One of the latest victims in the world of politics was the former president of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe Vélez, who used his image for this purpose in a Facebook post.

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The former president of Colombia issued a strong warning through his official account X With a short, but accurate, message. informed his followers about a scam that was spreading through Facebook using his image and personal identity for fraudulent purposes on social networks. Without delving into details, Uribe insisted on immediately reporting this deception to the competent authorities.

Álvaro Uribe condemned what would be a scam in which his image was being used – credit @AlvaroUribeVel

“This is a scam. Please, it’s on Facebook, it’s already been reported. “Immediately report it to the authorities,” wrote the political leader of the opposition party of the Democratic Center, trying to inform his followers so that they do not fall for the alleged scam and to help him, the report said. post so they can cancel it.

In fact, in that sense, two of the users who saw the publication made comments regarding what happened. “My doctor, I was going to speak there,” said one of the Internet users while the other talked about the use of AI for this type of action. “Attractive advertising, they are using AI the image of different people, actors, politicians, athletes, to attract naive people,” he said.

Álvaro Uribe shared an image of the scam he reported on his X profile – credit @AlvaroUribeVel

In the publication of the former president of Colombia you can also see a screenshot of the publication of an account called “investment project” and then you can see an image of Álvaro Uribe in a video that appears to be used by that Facebook profile. The publication had 613 reactions and was shared 77 times until the moment the former congressman shared that image.

A similar situation happened months ago with the first president of Colombia, well, lCybercriminals used the impersonation of President Gustavo Petro’s voice through artificial intelligence to commit scams on behalf of the Bank of the Republic, as reported by the well-known user Camilo Andrés García (@Hipercambiodo) on the X social network.

They use AI to fake Gustavo Petro’s voice to scam – credit Colprensa and EFE

“It was obvious it was going to happen. They have made improvements to the synthetic version of President Petro. Compared to the previous version, they improved the voice, which no longer sounds like a Mexican accent, and the synchronization of the voice and lip movement is almost perfect. (This is not Petro),” said the user who made the complaint at the time.

And that is, During the year, there were also scam attempts that use the voice dubbing of the famous Colombian soccer player Luis Díaz as the architect of a false financial project.

Regarding this situation, another user reported that “Attention! There is a scam using the name Luis Díaz to deceive people. In a video edited with AI, a fake interview with the player and journalist Alejandra Murgas is shown, suggesting investing in a fake project. Don’t miss it!”

This criminal method is called deepfake, a technology based on artificial intelligence that can generate hyperrealistic videos where people seem to say or do actions that never happened. Far from being limited to defrauding ordinary citizens, this sophisticated audiovisual manipulation technique has also been used to extort public figures, exposing the risks of the malicious use of this technological advance in the hands of organized crime.

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