The chilling rise of AI scams – podcast

Criminals are cloning voices and making calls to trick victims into sending them money. How can they be stopped?

Jennifer DiStefano, a mother of four, got a call one day from an unknown number. Two of her children were off snowboarding, so she picked up, worried that one of them might have been injured. It was her daughter Bree, screaming, crying and pleading for help. A man came on the line and told DiStefano that he had kidnapped her …

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