#Beware- New Scam Utilizing AI-Generated Images to Represent Fake Law Firm

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Fraud with AI Generated Fake Images



It may seem like a story from a Hollywood script, but it's true that scammers are using AI-generated images to scam people. According to Ben Dickson of Tech Talks, he received an email from a law firm lawyer that turned out to be fake, but surprisingly no sender existed.

Details of the Scam

In a blog post posted on Tech-talks, Dickson wrote that  Nicole Palmer sent an email on April 13 with the "DMCA Copyright Infringement Notice." In this email, Nicole was introduced  as a trademark lawyer for Arthur Davidson Legal Services, claiming that the recipient  used an image of Tech-talks owned by one of the clients. 

 "Our customers are happy that his photos are used and shared on the internet, but reasonable photo credits must be used in the past or on an ongoing basis," Nicole said. Read the allegedly sent email. The 

 email contains a reference to section 512 (c) of the DMCA and is signed by an expert that appears to be legitimate. Otherwise, Nicole threatened to file a proceeding against Dixon.

How was the Scam Discovered?

Dixon spent about seven days adding this image and home page to Nicole's client website. But when he failed, he reread his email and realized something was wrong. It was a link to an image sharing site called Imgur. Anyone can upload photos to this site without having to create a profile. 

 "So it's entirely possible that they  downloaded an image from my website, uploaded it to Imgur, and  claimed that their image was there before me," Dixon wrote. .. 

 Dickson got this image from Pixels, a royalty-free photo library. He emailed Nicole  proof that no attribution was needed and waited for a response. When he didn't get the answer, he looked up the website of her law firm, Arthur Davidson Legal. A quick search on 

 Google did not yield  results from such a well-known law firm. A warning signal was issued when Dixon stated that the website domain was founded in February 2022 and the company was founded in 2009. After 

, when Dixon checked her photo on the website, it became clear that Nicole Palmer wasn't there because she learned that the hostile generation network created the image.



Fake AI-generated image (Image: Tech-talks) 
 Notably, in 2019, software developer Philip Wang reported that a website  designed by software developer Philip Wang (thispersondoesnotexist.com) could create realistic faces of people who don't even exist with the click of an refresh button. It was there. The 
 Palmer image may have been created from the same website. However, beware of fake emails that claim to represent a law firm or threaten people with fake DMCA notices or subpoenas.

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