‎AI Voice Cloning Scams: How Criminals Are Stealing Millions - vocal.media

Summary

A married couple in their sixties received a phone call in the middle of the night from what appeared to be their daughter, who claimed to be in legal trouble after a car accident. The caller used an AI-generated voice clone, created from just three seconds of the daughter’s voice taken from an Instagram video, to convincingly mimic her speech patterns and emotional tone. The couple’s father, believing the call to be genuine, withdrew $50,000 in cash and wired it to an account provided by a fraudster posing as a public defender. When he later confirmed with his daughter that the situation was fabricated, he had already lost the money, and the scammer had used only a small audio sample to execute the fraud.