Companies Battle Wave of AI-Generated Fake Expense Receipts (ft.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/27/1829258/companies-battle-wave-of-ai-generated-fake-expense-receipts
- Source link: https://www.ft.com/content/0849f8fe-2674-4eae-a134-587340829a58
SAP Concur processes more than 80 million compliance checks monthly and now warns customers to not trust their eyes. The receipts include wrinkles in paper, detailed itemization matching real menus and signatures. Creating fraudulent documents previously required photo editing skills or paying for such services. Free and accessible image generation software has made it possible for anyone to falsify receipts in seconds by writing simple text instructions to chatbots.
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/0849f8fe-2674-4eae-a134-587340829a58
Expensivg hookers and blow (Score:3)
How am I suppose to expense hookers and blow?
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Tell your dealer and pimp you need real receipts, obviously.
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"Insert credit card here"
"Swipe your card here"
"Tap here to pay"
My tip of 20% must not be enough.
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Mag strip reader in the butt crack?
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I can believe it. Atlanta is the only place I've ever seen a motorcycle cop give a hooker a ride.
Is security through obscurity good? (Score:2)
Didn't slashdot tell me that was a bad idea 25 years ago? Have we backslid?
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Can't take it if you can't find it. Now we tell everyone where it is and dare them to try and take it, then are surprised when it's gone.
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They can find it.
If only we could read the article. (Score:3)
I do not have a $120/year subscription to the Financial Times. Can someone just post what percentage of SAP's 80 million monthly compliance checks are showing evidence of fraud using AI?
Solution (Score:4, Insightful)
Fire those that turn in fraudulent receipts and prosecute if the amount justifies it. The others will get the message real fast.
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Indeed, this is not something new. I even wonder why they bother with AI? Just make a few nice word templates. Buy a ticket printer, ...
I would not be surprised that more get caught because AI is not good with text in images. Numbers probably do not add up, ... weird phrases, ...
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Modern models can handle words perfectly- even in difficult situations like a word going through a fold that transforms the other half of its bounding box, for example.
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Indeed. Fraud is not new, nor is AI responsible for the dishonesty of a person who uses it for this purpose.
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When it occurs, this kind of fraud is often so prevalent that you would end up firing most of your management. If you only fire some of them, they will sue for discrimination (actually saw this happen, and the person got a giant payout).
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Then those corporations need enemas.
What AI does best (Score:3)
is be a copy cat.
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I love sermons. Can you preach some more, please?
iReckonator 2000. (Score:2)
(Previously, an Employee) ”Hey boss! Got that email you sent me. That fake AI letter you sent me about my termination? Ha! That’s a good one! Almost fooled me there for a minute.”
(T-Accounting 101) ”Yeah, about your TPS expense reports..did you get the memo that said don’t fucking steal shit? That was kind of a central theme in all those mandatory ethics courses.”
IRS... (Score:2)
Who wants to bet that the IRS suddenly has a massive drop in taxes paid by small businesses this year.
Because receipts are a lot more important to the IRS than to corporations, and the current leadership is NOT very interested in investigating fraud by business men.
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We care because the IRS cares.
The IRS can care anytime from now until I die.
Unless there are plans for Cyborg Trump, we will generally continue to assume that we'll be audited at some point.
Transparency and verification (Score:2)
Easiest solution is to issue employees a corporate credit card that they are responsible for. All reimbursable expenses have to be correlated against the copy of the statement issued by the credit card company to the corporation.
But what about cash expenses, you ask? Issue a per-diem for travel, and a periodic "here's your budget for IT refresh, whatever you don't spend, you get to keep."
My question is, what kind of receipt fraud are we looking at? Invented expenses that they're using to defraud the comp
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> Easiest solution is to issue employees a corporate credit card that they are responsible for. All reimbursable expenses have to be correlated against the copy of the statement issued by the credit card company to the corporation.
> But what about cash expenses, you ask? Issue a per-diem for travel, and a periodic "here's your budget for IT refresh, whatever you don't spend, you get to keep."
Clean and simple. You're a man of reason.
> My question is, what kind of receipt fraud are we looking at? Invented expenses that they're using to defraud the company, or real expenses that normally wouldn't be reimbursed that they're disguising as reimbursable ones?
Probably both.
> Also, wouldn't invoice fraud be a bigger threat?
Can't speak to all companies, but AP handles there here. It's their job to validate every invoice before it is paid out with people on our side of the transaction.
They also track changes to recurring invoices, and verify those changes.
> but with the bank details modified to point to the scammer's accounts instead?
These happen. We've had 2 this year.
Hmm (Score:2)
> Creating fraudulent documents previously required photo editing skills or paying for such services. Free and accessible image generation software has made it possible for anyone to falsify receipts in seconds by writing simple text instructions to chatbots.
C'mon, it wasn't all that hard.
Relying on scans of pieces of paper always had a big whiff of theater about it.
What is AI used for? (Score:1)
AI doesn't generate well detailed images to be used this way, what's the angle here or is this just another ad for "AI"?
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> AI doesn't generate well detailed images to be used this way,
In fact, it does, if one knows what one is doing (we've seen them in retail return fraud attempts). And it's easier to learn and faster to do than the old fashioned way with Photoshop.
(Still an overblown story, but it's not made up.)
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I do find that many peoples understanding of what generative AI can produce today is actually highly influenced by what they thought it could do 2-3 years ago. In other words, expectations haven't changed, but the tech has certainly exceeded them by this point.
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> I do find that many peoples understanding of what generative AI can produce today is actually highly influenced by what they thought it could do 2-3 years ago.
Hell, you could even say 2-3 months ago and still be right more often than not right now. I don't think I've seen any technology move so damn fast.
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I'm getting the impression that we may be living through the singularity now. The incident that brought it home for me was actually about two months ago when I was drawn into an email dialog with an extremely persuasive celebrity GAIvatar. The authenticity of the email was quite astounding to me. The first pitch was a kind of sales thing that meshed quite well with some videos the celebrity had made a while before, and it raised a couple of interesting questions. I politely declined the sale but asked one o
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We see a lot of LLM targeted phishing coming through, now.
It's pretty fucking scary, actually.
We've had to add filters on outbound email to quarantine any communications to unrecognized destinations for review.
I suppose if we want to drown in irony, we could have an LLM do the review...
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> In fact, it does, if one knows what one is doing (we've seen them in retail return fraud attempts). And it's easier to learn and faster to do than the old fashioned way with Photoshop.
Photoshop itself has had "AI" tools for awhile.
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probably SAP will launch an AI for detecting AI generated receipts in the next release and this is an advertisement