Voice Cloning Scam Awareness
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Voice cloning technology can now reproduce a highly recognisable voice from a relatively short audio sample gathered from almost anywhere, which has enabled a genuinely newer scam variant to emerge: an urgent call that sounds exactly like a familiar person, requesting money or sensitive information from the target under considerable pressure.
Because the cloned voice itself sounds genuinely convincing to the listener, the usual advice applies here with even greater weight than before: verify through a completely separate channel, a text message, a call placed to a different, independently known number, rather than trusting the voice alone no matter how familiar it happens to sound.
Establishing a simple, mutually agreed verification method with close family or trusted colleagues well in advance, such as a specific question only they would genuinely know the answer to, provides a genuinely practical safeguard against this increasingly convincing and rather worrying kind of impersonation attack.