随着去年美国的移民逮捕人数几乎翻了三倍，绝望的移民正越来越多地成为复杂法律诈骗的受害者，例如佛罗里达州的一家假律师事务所便骗取了客户超过2000万美元。尽管在民事诉讼中没有宪法赋予的获得律师的权利，但有律师代表的移民赢得驱逐案的概率要高出三倍，而被拘留者的胜诉几率则能提高十倍。

诈骗分子利用这种需求，通过人工智能生成的深度伪造和社交媒体来冒充真正的律师和慈善机构，其中包括约三分之一的天主教慈善会分支机构。迈阿密的一位律师自3月份以来已不得不拆除6400多个冒用其名字的虚假个人资料，这表明了此类数字化操作的巨大规模。

尽管Meta去年删除了1.59亿条各类诈骗广告，但科技平台和联邦当局在保护移民方面仍显吃力，自总统上任以来，向联邦贸易委员会提交的移民欺诈投诉增加了一倍。这一边缘化群体由于害怕被驱逐出境而不敢举报欺诈行为，因而成为了诈骗分子的首要目标。

As immigration arrests in the US nearly tripled last year, desperate immigrants are increasingly falling victim to sophisticated legal scams, such as a fake Florida firm that swindled clients out of over $20 million. Despite having no constitutional right to counsel in civil proceedings, immigrants with representation are three times more likely to win deportation cases, and detained individuals' chances improve tenfold.

Scammers are exploiting this need by using AI-generated deepfakes and social media to impersonate real attorneys and charities, mimicking approximately one-third of Catholic Charities' chapters. One Miami attorney has had to take down over 6,400 fraudulent profiles since March, illustrating the massive scale of these digital operations.

Although Meta removed 159 million scam ads last year, tech platforms and federal authorities have struggled to protect immigrants, and FTC immigration-fraud complaints have doubled since the president took office. This marginalized group remains prime targets because their fear of deportation deters them from reporting fraud.

Source: Scammers are preying on America’s illegal immigrants

Subtitle: Fake lawyers see opportunity in Donald Trump’s crackdow

Dateline: 6月 18, 2026 03:29 上午 | Miami