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Gullible mother falls for voice cloning scam even though her son would obviously never call (www.thebeaverton.com)

submitted 4 days ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/theonion@sh.itjust.works

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A 74-year-old woman lost over $60 000 from her retirement savings yesterday in a sophisticated, but in her situation, quite obvious scam, police say.

Gina Rossi was just preparing to go out and do her weekly grocery shopping when she received a call which, unbeknownst to her, was from a scam artist who had used AI to deepfake her 31-year-old son, Andrew’s voice. This was unnecessary, because Rossi has only spoken to her son twice in the past seven years, and probably would not recognize his voice anyway. [...]

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[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I ate it. Fuck.

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah, no way my mom is falling for this...