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Washington Post columnist Michelle Singletary reports on the surge in AI-powered tax scams during filing season. Criminals now use generative AI to create convincing deepfake voices that impersonate IRS agents, threatening arrest over unpaid taxes. The FTC has warned of a 'big wave' of phone scams using official-sounding agency names. Consumers lost more than $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, with impostor fraud the second-highest category at $2.95 billion.