Useful AI is arriving inside the apps you already use. Decide what it can connect to. Home Office: 395% rise in suspected AI fraud reports, losses £1.2m to £9.6m; Jenny Radcliffe at Abta on voice cloning, deepfakes and small suppliers as a route in; five warning signs.
What was reported
A Home Office briefing, summarised by ICAS on 16 October, recorded a 395% rise in fraud reports involving suspected AI use in 2025-26, with losses up from £1.2m to £9.6m, though still a small share of all fraud.
At Abta's Travel Convention, reported by Travel Weekly on 19 October, security expert Jenny Radcliffe warned of a "tsunami of fraud" using voice cloning and deepfake video, and said smaller firms and suppliers are often a route into larger organisations. Her five warning signs: money or something of value, an unusual context, heightened emotion, urgency and a request for action.
Coverage context
The cheapest defence is a rule everyone follows: any request to pay, change bank details or share access gets checked through a separate, known contact.
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