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Scammers use a cloned voice of a 15-year-old to stage a fake kidnapping call to her mother

Jennifer DeStefano heard what she was certain was her daughter sobbing on a call demanding ransom; the voice was AI-generated, and her Senate testimony became the emblematic case of virtual kidnapping.

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