AI scam hits White House: 'Nobody can impersonate Susie Wiles,' says Trump

Several officials from the US government have received messages from someone who is impersonating

Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump's chief of staff.

Trump said that Wiles is an amazing woman and that she can handle this. The US authorities have started the investigation.

“They breached the phone; they tried to impersonate her,” Trump told reporters on Friday. “Nobody can impersonate her. There's only one Susie.”

Susie Wiles has previously served as the co-manager of Trump’s campaign before taking on the role of chief of staff in the new administration.

As reported by the Wall Street Journal, governors, business officials, and senators began to receive text messages and phone calls as the impersonator had gained access to their contact details through Wiles’s phone.

However, the texts and calls were not going through Wiles’s number. The voice sounded like Wiles’s and might have been generated by artificial Intelligence, suggest people who have received the phone calls.

Some thought that the text messages were coming from White House officials. But it is still quite nebulous as to how someone got access to Wiles’s phone.

Earlier this month, the FBI had warned in a public service announcement of a malicious campaign in which unidentified “malicious actors” have been calling and sending text messages impersonating senior government officials. This campaign mainly depends on Artificial Intelligence, aiming to dupe government officials, as per the FBI.

FBI director Kash Patel commented, “Safeguarding our administration officials' ability to securely communicate to accomplish the president's mission is a top priority.”

Last year, Iran had also gained access to Trump’s campaign, sensitive internal documents, including a dossier on vice president JD Vance.