{"id":26221,"date":"2025-12-26T18:50:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T02:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=26221"},"modified":"2026-01-21T08:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:06:10","slug":"criminals-are-now-using-ai-to-impersonate-senior-u-s-officials-fbi-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/criminals-are-now-using-ai-to-impersonate-senior-u-s-officials-fbi-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminals Are Now Using AI To Impersonate Senior U.S. Officials, FBI Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation released an alert on Dec. 19 warning that phony text messages and AI are being used to scam people in the orbits of high-level government officials in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince at least 2023, malicious actors have sent text messages and AI-generated voice messages \u2014 techniques known as smishing and vishing, respectively \u2014 that claim to come from a senior U.S. official to establish rapport with targeted individuals,\u201d The FBI wrote in an announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/criminals-are-now-using-ai-to-impersonate-senior-u-s-officials-fbi-warns?author=Cameron+Arcand&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=10&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Criminals+Are+Now+Using+AI+To+Impersonate+Senior+U.S.+Officials%2C+FBI+Warns\">dailywire.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation released an alert on Dec. 19 warning that phony text messages and AI are being used to scam people in the orbits of high-level government officials in the United States. \u201cSince at least 2023, malicious actors have sent text messages and AI-generated voice messages \u2014 techniques known as smishing and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/criminals-are-now-using-ai-to-impersonate-senior-u-s-officials-fbi-warns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Criminals Are Now Using AI To Impersonate Senior U.S. Officials, FBI Warns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-warning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6OV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26222,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26221\/revisions\/26222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}