'Mom, these bad men have me': She believes scammers cloned her daughter's voice in a fake kidnapping | CNN
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Jennifer DeStefano's phone rang in January with a terrifying call from her sobbing 15-year-old daughter, saying she'd been kidnapped. But as a relieved DeStefano soon learned, her daughter was safe and the call was a scam.

“A reasonably good clone can be created with under a minute of audio and some are claiming that even a few seconds may be enough.” Mom wary about answering calls for fear voice will be cloned for future virtual kidnapping.

  • Cegorach@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    the title already is about “improving kidnapping scam”

    so yes, that “kidnapping scam” seems to be a thing

    and scams generally work best if done low effort

    fun fact: most of the time you don’t want to waste time on less-guilible people, so making your scam less obvious isn’t that usefull.