Be prepared for the new era of scams

@Madshadi (8900)
Brussels, Belgium
September 10, 2026 10:06pm CST
I was reading about how AI is making it easy to clone almost any voice. So you could receive a fake phone call that sounds like a relative asking you for money, when in reality you're talking to a scammer who cloned your relative's voice. And you could easily fall for it. The article I read suggested that every family should agree on a secret code/password offline, so if someone tries to scam them, they’d have to pass the security code first. It's insane how AI is shaping everything around us, in both good and bad ways, isn't it?
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8 responses
@MoonMaa (671)
• United States
23h
AI is a good tool to use but unfortunately there is always a bad side to something. I know they tell you when you answer the phone don't answer by saying, "Yes" because they record your voice and use it as though you said, "Yes" involving something else.
2 people like this
• Northampton, England
5h
Yup, scams will accelerate rapidly with AI.
@May2k8 (20120)
• Indonesia
17h
It depends on how we utilize AI, but there are indeed many people doing scam with that.
@LadyDuck (509295)
• Italy
17h
It is insane, AI will cause more problems than goods in the near future. I am sure of this.
@DaddyEvil (178250)
• United States
18h
Scams like that have been around for a while. I hope nobody gets caught in it. I had somebody claiming to be a niece trying to tell the police that she lived with me. I told them I'd never heard of her before. People are just stupid.
@Shiva49 (28853)
• Singapore
15h
The days of trust are gone. Too many scams around taking advantage of especially the elderly. We have to be "worldly wise".
@nawala123 (22933)
• Indonesia
23h
I watched mission impossible and all these sound impossible at that time and now all is possible
@Wrexxo (7115)
20h
It's been around for a while. What we do is to call the real phone number of our relative to be sure he or she is the one that called.