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  • ✇The Guardian
  • ‘We detected unusual activity’: the scam that uses AI to exploit your holiday photos
    Fraudsters use pictures posted on Instagram or Facebook to create emails seeking bank account detailsYou are on a short break in Porto and post some pictures of your family on Instagram or Facebook. With a small section of the Douro river in the background, you think it could have been taken anywhere.A few days later, you get a text saying that your card was compromised. “We detected unusual activity while you were travelling in Porto – please verify immediately,” says the message. Continue read
     

‘We detected unusual activity’: the scam that uses AI to exploit your holiday photos

16. August 2026 um 07:00

Fraudsters use pictures posted on Instagram or Facebook to create emails seeking bank account details

You are on a short break in Porto and post some pictures of your family on Instagram or Facebook. With a small section of the Douro river in the background, you think it could have been taken anywhere.

A few days later, you get a text saying that your card was compromised. “We detected unusual activity while you were travelling in Porto – please verify immediately,” says the message.

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© Photograph: Sean Pavone/Alamy

© Photograph: Sean Pavone/Alamy

© Photograph: Sean Pavone/Alamy

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