Voice cloning scams: How to protect yourself from audio deepfakes
Source: Mashable SEA
Published on: 2026-11-01 10:28
Your phone rings, and without thinking, you answer it. It's your spouse. Or your grandma. Maybe the friend you're always posting TikToks with online. And they're asking for your help. They've been in a car accident, and you have to provide some personal information as their emergency contact. They're in jail and need you to bail them out. Or maybe it's even simpler than that: Grandma can't log into her account and needs to send you a code. Can you please read it to her? The familiar lilt of their voices catch you off guard -- only none of them are real. Their voices have been cloned, and malicious actors are donning their audio likenesses to scam you out of your personal information, and sometimes cold, hard cash. That number is growing, making even more people susceptible to the deceptive tech, but there are very simple ways to protect yourself and your loved ones. Scroll through Ti...
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