{"id":146715,"date":"2026-08-20T23:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/146715\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:13:08","slug":"scammers-using-ai-to-target-back-to-school-shoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/146715\/","title":{"rendered":"Scammers using AI to target back-to-school shoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Back-to-school shopping is one of the biggest shopping seasons of the year, second only to the holidays, and this year artificial intelligence is becoming part of the shopping experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A new poll found 73% of parents plan to use AI for tasks like researching products, comparing prices, creating a budget or finding deals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">But shoppers aren\u2019t the only ones using AI. Scammers are using it too, creating increasingly convincing fake websites, ads, emails and messages designed to steal money and personal information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cSo they can build these professional-looking shopping sites, write polished-looking phishing emails and create realistic ads that don\u2019t have the spelling mistakes and other obvious warning signs that we used to look for,\u201d said Joan Goodchild, of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cybersavvymom.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/cybersavvymom.com\/\">Cyber Savvy Mom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Cyber Savvy Mom says to be suspicious of unusually deep discounts and go to the retailer\u2019s website to verify it\u2019s legit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She also warns parents about other school scams, including messages coming from fraudsters about packages, tuition and scholarships, and fake organizations trying to get info on kids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">You can see more with Joan Goodchild Sunday morning at 11:30 a.m. on \u201cYou Can Quote Me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Back-to-school shopping is one of the biggest shopping seasons of the year, second only&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,601,25,24322,72055,2065,199,5969,206,15113,37287,66,72054,3844,3708,734,2505,2184,28461],"class_list":["post-146715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-back","tag-burlington","tag-children","tag-crime","tag-cyber","tag-intelligence","tag-kids","tag-mom","tag-news","tag-savvy","tag-scams","tag-school","tag-shopping","tag-students","tag-vermont","tag-wcax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}