I've seen a massive surge in spam emails and contact form messages to my business website.
AI seems to be winning the war against heuristic spam detectors. It seems to be easier than ever to spoof IP addresses, so blacklisting by IP no longer works well, and AI can solve captchas faster than humans. Once they're through those layers of defence, the AI-generated messages vary enough that heuristic anti-spam software doesn't always (or even often) pick it up.
It's an arms race where AI seems to be playing for both sides.....
What is crazy with the spoofing, is when they are able to use the "same number" as legit company numbers so it appears in the same chain of SMS. Like, what the hell?