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'20 minutes of terror': AI voice impersonation scams
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WASHINGTON - Liz Benz still believes the distressed caller's voice was her son's -- the tone, enunciation and cadence all matched her 16-year-old.
Key facts
- WASHINGTON - Liz Benz still believes the distressed caller's voice was her son's -- the tone, enunciation and cadence all matched her 16-year-old.
- The FBI said Americans over 60 reported more than $7.7 billion in losses last year, a significant jump over 2024.
- But it was an AI clone, making the American mother yet another victim of a growing wave of impersonation scams.
- The FBI said in April that Americans lost over $893 million last year to AI-enabled hoaxes, including voice cloning scams.
- said Philadelphia attorney Gary Schildhorn, who faced a similar attack in 2020.
- In 2023, Schildhorn testified before the US Senate about his experience with a scam call in which a voice impersonating his son Brett claimed he needed to post bail after a drunk-driving arrest.
Summary
But it was an AI clone, making the American mother yet another victim of a growing wave of impersonation scams.
Rapidly evolving artificial intelligence technology has demolished the boundaries between reality and fiction, handing cybercriminals strikingly convincing voice cloning tools to steal from people by mimicking loved ones.