{
 "id": "AIR-2024-0024",
 "slug": "cartels-reportedly-using-ai-to-expand-financial-fraud-operat",
 "title": "Cartels Reportedly Using AI to Expand Financial Fraud Operations",
 "summary": "Organized crime groups deployed AI to facilitate financial fraud and coerce victims into illegal activities. The operation caused real-world financial loss and human harm.",
 "type": "ai_enabled_attack",
 "categories": [
  "deepfake_fraud",
  "ai_phishing_social_engineering"
 ],
 "severity": 4,
 "targets": [
  "individual_victims"
 ],
 "products": [],
 "incident_date": "2024-03-14",
 "incident_date_precision": "day",
 "first_reported": "2024-03-14",
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/725",
   "publisher": "AI Incident Database",
   "title": "Cartels Reportedly Using AI to Expand Operations into Financial Fraud and Human Trafficking",
   "published_at": "2024-03-14"
  }
 ],
 "source_count": 1,
 "confidence": 0.85,
 "status": "published",
 "origin": "seed_aiid",
 "tags": [
  "financial_fraud",
  "organized_crime"
 ],
 "created_at": "2026-10-18T06:33:31.967Z",
 "updated_at": "2026-10-18T06:59:35.797Z"
}