Scammers are emboldened by AI and the opportunities it presents—for ripping people off who consider themselves tech-savvy. From spoofing caller IDs to creating fake people for video calls, bad actors are using technology to fleece people out of their hard-earned money.

Reddit is full of thousands of stories of people getting scammed, and Bravo's Andy Cohen even fell for a bank scam earlier this year that cost him "a lot of money" he told the TODAY show.

"I consider myself a smart, functioning member of society," Cohen said, at the time.

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Billionaire Mark Cuban said that he was scammed earlier this summer by someone who hacked into his Gmail........

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