A speaker shares how a friend's mother fell victim to a deepfake voice scam, where AI-generated audio tricked her into sending money. The scam used a convincing fake voice to impersonate a family member in distress.
Friend of mine called me of the day in the States. His mother got scammed by someone who deep faked his voice. Oh. From his podcast. Oh, wow. So they took all the audio, put it through an AI generator. Deep faked his voice and called his mother. Like, just from. I had to call you from friends number. Like, can you send to my account? Yeah, here's the details. I messaged my parents, I messaged on the group chat, right? And I said like, hey, this is happening now. So the name of our first pet will be the like, the weird word. If you think this is odd, my wife goes, oh, Sal, are we using Sally Internet unsecured Internet devices. Anyway, we've changed it. Yeah. So as a family now have a full ISO prep. Like, there's just kind of have to. There's so much video of you and me and what, like, out there that you could deep fake anything. Yeah, yeah. Easily so. Yeah. Yeah. Anything I say that is not correct has been deep faked. Yeah. Yeah. If it's controversial, causes problems could get me canceled. It wasn't me. It wasn't me. Yeah. Shaggy. The Shaggy. It wasn't me.
