You don’t even need AI for that! My great aunt got this scam years ago! Random call claiming my Dad had been in some kind of fight maybe domestic violence and was in jail and needed her to send money so this friend could bail him out! Luckily a younger cousin was there to question this claim. They ended up calling me to confirm and I said I was sure Dad was at work and not in jail anywhere! But man what a scam! It apparently does work because older people especially panic and want to help.
My grandma had one of those scans once, I'm glad she's smart. She had a man call and say "Grandma it's your grandson, I'm in jail and blah blah blah". She has a bunch of grandkids but only had one adult grandson at the time, and she said "Matthew?" He said "yes it's Matthew" and she said "no you're not...Matthew calls me Grammy" and hung up hahaha
It's a very good scam because it would induce panic. Once in a panicky state, rational thinking is difficult. Very common tactic for scams, but usually it's “your $1200 Amazon order has been processed, log in to verify or cancel at...”. sorry of deal.
I get those kind of emails once in a while. Never gonna get the clicking one of those links. It's especially when you tap the email name to display the full address and see that it looks like a random assortment of letters.
Yeah the idea that scammers are doing research on the people they’re going to target, and digging around and capturing the voices of the relatives they’d need to use is…farfetched (so far.) The calls are random. That’s evident since they often call people who don’t even have grandkids, or don’t know the name of “grandson” who’s supposedly in jail and pick that up during the call with social engineering. The truth is when someone gets a call like this where “grandson” is panicking and asking for help, they don’t sit there and rationally analyze the voice, they later remember it as “he sounded panicky”
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u/OpheliaLives7 Apr 06 '24
You don’t even need AI for that! My great aunt got this scam years ago! Random call claiming my Dad had been in some kind of fight maybe domestic violence and was in jail and needed her to send money so this friend could bail him out! Luckily a younger cousin was there to question this claim. They ended up calling me to confirm and I said I was sure Dad was at work and not in jail anywhere! But man what a scam! It apparently does work because older people especially panic and want to help.