arXiv:2602.05056v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Online scams increasingly leverage fluent and context-aware social engineering strategies, creating growing demand for AI systems that explain why a message may be risky. However, explanations that cite detector-derived evidence may still semantically weaken or redirect the intended risk interpretation. We introduce VEXA: Verifying Semantic Explanation Alignment, a controlled testbed for studying the gap between lexical grounding and semantic risk alignment in AI-generated scam-risk explanations. VEXA generates ungrounded, risk-aligned,
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