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'Tis The Season For Scammers: AI Voices Increasingly Used To Victimize New Yorkers 'Tis The Season For Scammers: AI Voices Increasingly Used To Victimize New Yorkers
'Tis The Season For Scammers: AI Voices Increasingly Used To Victimize New Yorkers Police are sounding the alarm about a clever new way scammers are targeting New York residents this holiday season. In a warning issued Thursday, Nov. 16, Suffolk County Police on Long Island said scammers are increasingly using fake voices that are generated by artificial intelligence (AI) to dupe victims out of their money. To pull off the “spoofing” scam, criminals use AI tools to clone the voices of people who post on social media and then call their relatives pretending to be them. Police highlighted a recent example in which an 85-year-old Hauppauge man got a call from someone posing…
Surfer Attacked By Shark At NY Beach Surfer Attacked By Shark At NY Beach
Surfer Attacked By Shark At NY Beach Another Long Island beach is closed to swimming after a surfer was bitten by a shark.  The incident took place at Smith Point County Beach Park in Shirley, around 7:30 a.m., Wednesday, July 13, said Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone. The surfer was taken to Long Island Community Hospital in Patchogue for treatment of injuries, Bellone said. The third attack comes after a shark bit a Smith Point County Park lifeguard, on Sunday, July 3 and another lifeguard was attacked in the village of Ocean Beach on Thursday, July 7. "This is the new normal with tiger sharks swimming closer t…
Cops Made Unintentional Mistakes In Handling Of Gabby Petito, Brian Laundrie Fight, Report Says Cops Made Unintentional Mistakes In Handling Of Gabby Petito, Brian Laundrie Fight, Report Says
Cops Made Unintentional Mistakes In Handling Of Gabby Petito, Brian Laundrie Fight, Report Says An independent investigation into how police in Utah handled a domestic violence incident between Long Island natives Gabby Petito and her boyfriend Brian Laundrie revealed officers made several "unintentional" mistakes. Petito, age 22, of Blue Point in Suffolk County, who had been on a road trip with Laundrie, was killed by strangulation, her body was found on Sunday, Sept. 19, in the Grand Teton National Park, in Wyoming. Following the discovery of her remains, the FBI named Laundrie, age 23, a "person of interest" in her death, but he died by suicide in Florida before he could be caught…