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Home/AI Incident Database/"Grandparent" scams use cloned voices of relatives in distress to extract cash from elderly victims

"Grandparent" scams use cloned voices of relatives in distress to extract cash from elderly victims

Investigations documented families paying thousands after calls in which a cloned voice of a grandchild claimed to be in jail or hospital, the first mass-market criminal use of consumer voice-cloning tools.

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