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David Silva Smith's avatar

Wow, that scam alert is scary!

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Luke Allen Hackney's avatar

I actually heard about it anecdotally on a podcast. They said they were visiting their parents and the recording of their brother sounded quite passable. They immediately identified it as a scam, but doubted their parents would have caught on so quick.

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David Silva Smith's avatar

Man, that is so scary! Must be effective, even the old tricks seemed to have a nice conversion rate. Adding in the deep fakes with the traditional techniques of crisis + urgency. Yikes! Like what if they just have the son say for a minute 'Hey talk to the {lawyer/police officer/ etc. }' who then authoritatively describes the situation and why son can't talk anymore... #nightmares

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