# AI was supposed to take scammers’ jobs, but it gave them superpowers instead

https://mins.news/en/item/65678

- CryptoSlate, 2026-09-19 17:10 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://cryptoslate.com/ai-was-supposed-to-take-scammers-jobs-but-it-gave-them-superpowers-instead/

> AI is making fraud cheaper to scale rather than putting scammers out of work. Chainalysis found average on-chain revenue of $3.2 million for scam operations linked to AI vendors, about 4.5 times the figure for others. The FBI recorded roughly $893.3 million in adjusted losses from 2025 complaints involving AI, while Anthropic described Claude Code being used in an extortion campaign targeting at least 17 organizations.