{"id":13055,"date":"2024-01-23T11:37:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T10:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/23\/ai-voice-cloning-is-supercharging-the-scamming-of-parents-but-ive-got-a-foolproof-solution-zoe-williams\/"},"modified":"2024-01-23T11:37:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T10:37:25","slug":"ai-voice-cloning-is-supercharging-the-scamming-of-parents-but-ive-got-a-foolproof-solution-zoe-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/23\/ai-voice-cloning-is-supercharging-the-scamming-of-parents-but-ive-got-a-foolproof-solution-zoe-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"AI voice-cloning is supercharging the scamming of parents. But I\u2019ve got a foolproof solution | Zoe Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Voice cloning is ever more sophisticated \u2013 and can be used to impersonate a child and target their parents. So I have devised a new phone greeting for my teenagers<\/p>\n

A friend recently got duped by a scam text purporting to be from his middle daughter, and transferred \u00a3100 to an account to cover some baffling yet, according to the text, extremely time-sensitive untoward event.<\/p>\n

You can imagine how the scammer pulled that off. Think of everyday, low-level parental anxiety, expecting bad news when kids are anywhere farther away than the kitchen table; add the sheer believability of any bad news that starts with a 19-year-old texting: \u201cI smashed my phone\u201d; all a scammer has to do is lean in.<\/p>\n

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\nVoice cloning is ever more sophisticated \u2013 and can be used to impersonate a child and target their parents. So I have devised a new phone greeting for my teenagers
\nA friend recently got duped by a scam text purporting to be from his middle daughter, and transferred \u00a3100 to an account to cover some baffling yet, according to the text, extremely time-sensitive untoward event.
\nYou can imagine how the scammer pulled that off. Think of everyday, low-level parental anxiety, expecting bad news when kids are anywhere farther away than the kitchen table; add the sheer believability of any bad news that starts with a 19-year-old texting: \u201cI smashed my phone\u201d; all a scammer has to do is lean in. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Voice cloning is ever more sophisticated \u2013 and can be used to impersonate a child and target their parents. So I have devised a new phone greeting for my teenagers A friend recently got duped by a scam text purporting to be from his middle daughter, and transferred \u00a3100 to an account to cover some …<\/p>\n

AI voice-cloning is supercharging the scamming of parents. But I\u2019ve got a foolproof solution | Zoe Williams<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13055"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}