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AI scam calls imitating familiar voices are a growing problem – here's how they work (theconversation.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but they'll call your family. A friend of mine was recently affected by this, a scammer had a clone of her voice asking for around $300 to fix their car because they got stranded in the middle of nowhere. So they call up your parents and to your mom it's like "Oh no! My baby! Of course I'll help you!" and your mom gives them $300 thinking it's you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah my family knows better. I don’t call anyone either plus I’ve got all of my family on DEFCON 1 when it comes to asking for money. Had someone try and scam my mom via Facebook pretending to be my sister. I have family members contacting me ALL the time with issues with their stuff so they don’t trust anything at all.

This all stems from myself getting scammed nearly 20 years ago via email so I’ve educated everyone immensely.