Founding Engineer, Scam AI
Xingyu (Alex) Shen
Xingyu (Alex) Shen is a founding engineer at Scam AI. Alex covers how deepfake and forgery detection fits into identity checks, hiring, payments and AI agents.
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Deepfake video injection in eKYC: Scam AI and ALCHERA
Deepfake video injection in eKYC: ALCHERA's face checks plus a Scam AI score on each frame of the selfie video, so an injected deepfake is held for review.
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Voice deepfake detection for AI voice agents, with KrosAI
Voice deepfake detection for AI voice agents on KrosAI lines: in our demo, a synthetic caller asking for a PIN reset was flagged and a real voice passed.
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Deepfake CFO fraud prevention with Halo and a Pokee agent
Deepfake CFO fraud prevention: Halo flags a synthetic face and, in our design, a Pokee agent holds the payment. Firms reported $30M in AI-linked BEC in 2025.
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AI content in consumer insights: Scam AI and Honestly
AI content in consumer insights: Honestly labels the opinions and Scam AI can score their pictures, so a generated image is weighed, not deleted.
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Voice deepfake detection for payments: Scam AI and Modulate
Voice deepfake detection for payments: in a Gallup survey, 70% of scams with a phone call also used texts. Modulate checks the call, Scam AI the invoice.
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Layered deepfake detection for KYC: Scam AI and deepidv
Layered deepfake detection for KYC: in deepidv's benchmark, 31% of GAN faces got past a single-layer liveness check and 0.2% past its multi-layer stack.
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Synthetic scam call data from real calls, with Whitney AI
Whitney AI post-trained a model on Scam AI's real scam calls to write synthetic scam call data; model judges took its turns for real 41.3% of the time.
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Short-term rental booking fraud: score, then check in
Short-term rental booking fraud returns weeks later as a chargeback and a $15 Stripe fee. Scam AI and Cozystay score each booking and check in risky guests.
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An AI scam call honeypot, voiced by Fish Audio
An AI scam call honeypot whose personas speak in Fish Audio voices, and what its first 10,211 recorded calls show fraud teams about scam scripts and requests.
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On-device deepfake detection for video calls, with Qualcomm
On-device deepfake detection for video calls: Halo checks faces on the Snapdragon NPU and uploads nothing. A 2024 deepfake call cost Arup about $25.6 million.
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Deepfake candidate detection in video interviews, with Eteon
Deepfake candidate detection in video interviews: Halo checks an Eteon candidate's face live, and our API checks the voice in short recorded answers.
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Deepfake detection for AI agents: Scam AI × Aident
Scam AI × Aident: an AI agent checks the photos, video and recordings in a claim for AI generation before relying on them, and a person reviews what is flagged.
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How Scam AI and TinyFish vet candidates and claims
How the Scam AI and TinyFish integration checks hiring candidates and insurance claims: public pages bound to the case, files checked, gaps written down.
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