How real is what you see?

Deceptively real images and videos, AI-generated content and sophisticated criminal strategies - digital deception has many faces. Whether through manipulated images, fake identities or feigned intentions: Many digital crimes start with a lie. Modern technologies such as artificial intelligence are making it increasingly easy for perpetrators to gain trust and manipulate their victims in a targeted manner.

Children, young people and adults in particular are increasingly being targeted by perpetrators who make targeted use of the internet. Cybergrooming is a serious danger in which perpetrators gain the trust of young people in order to initiate sexual abuse. Equally perfidious is blackmail with intimate images, so-called sextortion - a scam in which victims are put under pressure and humiliated. In this context, there may also be other criminally relevant aspects, such as child pornography, if such images are distributed or possessed. But it is not only young people who are at risk: Adults also fall for love scams, so-called love scamming, in which fraudsters use fake identities to feign feelings in order to obtain large sums of money.

In this web seminar, LKA prevention expert Carina Kneip and Verena Maus show how such deceptions work, what methods perpetrators use and how to recognize manipulated content and fraudulent intentions. They will also present specific offers of help and advice to increase confidence in the digital space.

Further information: https://www.polizei.rlp.de/die-polizei/dienststellen/landeskriminalamt-rheinland-pfalz