{"id":645261,"date":"2026-08-19T07:30:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T07:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=840357"},"modified":"2026-08-19T07:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T07:30:27","slug":"asic-pulls-3106-crypto-scams-as-ai-networks-target-aussie-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/asic-pulls-3106-crypto-scams-as-ai-networks-target-aussie-savings\/","title":{"rendered":"ASIC Pulls 3,106 Crypto Scams as AI Networks Target Aussie Savings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/asic-pulls-3106-crypto-scams-as-ai-networks-target-aussie-savings-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>In FY26, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission shut down over 19,400 online scams, a 182% surge, including 3,106 cryptocurrency investment platforms. How Syndicates Use Deepfakes and AI Infrastructure Australia\u2019s corporate regulator has issued a stark warning to investors as sophisticated, AI-generated deceptive networks\u2014often built around fake cryptocurrency platforms and deepfake endorsements\u2014continue to target Australian [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In FY26, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission shut down over 19,400 online scams, a 182% surge, including 3,106 cryptocurrency investment platforms. How Syndicates Use Deepfakes and AI Infrastructure Australia\u2019s corporate regulator has issued a stark warning to investors as sophisticated, AI-generated deceptive networks\u2014often built around fake cryptocurrency platforms and deepfake endorsements\u2014continue to target Australian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":645262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-645261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}