Fraudsters editing vehicle photos to add fake damage in UK insurance scam
by Rupert Jones from World news | The Guardian on (#6MGZ2)
Insurers report rise in cases of images being manipulated with shallowfake' technology
A surge in fraud cases in which photos are manipulated to show fake car crash damage is alarming insurers and helping to push motor insurance costs up to record levels.
The insurer Allianz said incidents where apps were used to distort real-life images, videos and documents increased by 300% between 2021-22 and 2022-23, and it added that this had all the signs of becoming the latest big scam to hit the insurance industry".
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