{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0053",
 "incident_id": "2026-02-openai-threat-report-scams-io",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-02-25",
 "date_occurred": null,
 "title": "OpenAI February 2026 threat report: romance/task scams, fake legal services and state-linked influence operations",
 "class": "in_the_wild",
 "attack_surface": "consumer_chatbot",
 "initial_vector": "direct_misuse_for_fraud_and_influence",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "content_generation",
  "translation",
  "persona_development",
  "operational_coordination"
 ],
 "target_product": "ChatGPT and API access",
 "target_vendor": "OpenAI",
 "autonomy_level": "assistant",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "fraud",
  "financial_loss",
  "influence_operation"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "Operations named Date Bait (Indonesia), False Witness (impersonating US authorities and law firms), Silver Lining Playbook, Trolling Stone, No Bell and Fish Food",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI09"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "scam",
   "influence_operation",
   "semi_automated"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "Usage policy enforcement",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "Accounts banned",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/26/openai-malicious-chatgpt-use-report/"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "Operation Date Bait - Romance and task scam targeting Indonesian men through fake dating services",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "notes": "OpenAI's own report page is not quoted here and no CDN PDF is archived, so this record is built on Help Net Security's coverage - medium confidence per the corpus rule, and the quote is the secondary outlet's phrasing, not OpenAI's. Largely outside this corpus's agentic scope (content generation, no tool use); recorded for completeness of the OpenAI threat-report series. Anyone relying on this record should check the OpenAI original.",
 "risk_category": "security_fraud",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "product_misuse"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Unclassified",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "human_acted_on_output",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "the models generated scam and influence content that humans distributed",
 "vector_family": "misuse",
 "vector_detail": "direct_misuse_for_fraud_and_influence",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "abuse_detection"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI09",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "openai",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "unknown",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "human_manipulation",
 "eai_domain": "agent_behaviour",
 "eai_secondary": [],
 "eai_reason": "impact rule: human_manipulation",
 "asi_curated": [],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "rule",
 "asi_reason": "ASI09 (eai_category=human_manipulation)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}