The hearing converged on the stark conclusion that AI has not changed the emotional machinery of fraud. The warning was given a human face by Deborah Del Mastro, a 64-year-old California woman who answered a call in May from a man claiming to have kidnapped her daughter. Only after the caller claimed the daughter had been released at a Walmart did Del Mastro call her directly. By then, Del Mastro and her husband had sent $5,400. Article TopicsAI fraud | deepfakes | financial crime | fraud prevention | generative AI | U.S. Government