The AI Crime Gap: Why Criminals are Always Ahead of the Police

Criminals now use AI every day to clone voices, write flawless phishing emails, and scale scams globally. Meanwhile, some jurisdictions ban their own investigators from touching AI tools, a Recoveris executive warns.

The warning came during BeInCrypto's Market Intelligence Council panel on crypto crime. Sol Cinosi of Recoveris and Nick Pailthorpe of Kodex agreed on the diagnosis. The AI crypto crime fight is becoming an arms race, and one side shows up unarmed.

Grammar Checks Don't Catch Phishing Anymore

Cinosi, a former Buenos Aires prosecutor who now leads government and corporate affairs at Recoveris, said during the experts panel that AI is changing the game for both sides. On the criminal side, it scales sophistication and reach at once.

"The old advice to look for poor grammar in phishing emails doesn't really work anymore. AI clones voices, generates deepfakes, and automates scams at a scale that simply wasn't possible a few years ago."

The numbers back him up. Crypto scams took an estimated $17 billion in 2025, according to the Chainalysis 2026 Crypto Crime Report.

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