EATON COUNTY, Mich. (News 10) – Scammers are finding new and sophisticated ways to target mid-Michigan residents, turning to artificial intelligence and local phone spoofing to steal money, according to Eaton County Sheriff Tom Reich.
In a Facebook post on Saturday, Reich alerted the community that fraudsters are calling residents from numbers designed to appear as local Eaton County phone lines.
In some cases, scammers are pairing the calls with AI-generated images of fake sheriff’s deputies standing next to cryptocurrency machines, visually instructing victims to deposit funds into Bitcoin ATMs…