The phone is ringing, but you don’t recognize the number. It could be a scam, you think, but maybe your hospital is calling you to confirm your appointment for next week. So you answer.
Surprised, you hear your daughter’s voice, telling you, in between sobs, that she is in trouble and she needs your help. If you could just send her $300, she can leave this horrible situation.
But that’s not your daughter. The voice that sounds so accurate and human is none other than an artificial-intelligence-generated voice. Her trouble is none other than a ploy by scammers to pull on your heartstrings and get your money.
THREE SECONDS, A LIFETIME OF REGRET
While the above scenario is hypothetical, in reality, scams like this happen every day across the world.
Within the U.S. alone, an average of 2.5 billion scam calls occur per month, breaking down to nine scam calls per individual, reported reported the consumer fraud watchdog True Caller. […]
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