Originally Posted by musiclover
What is a bit scary is the scammers can sample a few seconds of the voice of a family member, then call you with a sob story, seemingly from that family member.

Since you are talking with AI, it can answer questions and that's it's weakness. You simply have a secret question/answer with your family members and slip it into the conversation.

What is Uncle Bobs favorite hobby? (collecting beetles) Did you get Aunt Sally's favorite bottle of wine? ( Aunt Sally doesn't drink) If you get anything other than the correct answer, it's a scam. None of it has to be real. Kinda like my security customers and the central station calling for a false alarm..... one, and only one response is the correct one. We had one with our daughters when they were in school. Someone says they were sent by us to pick them up? What's the password?

I got an email from a friend who said he was in Africa and his bag got stolen which had his money and plane ticket and he needed to buy a ticket to get home....could I wire him the money? and it contained a Western Union account number. I happened to know he was in the USA at the time and since he was a missionary, while the story kinda made sense, he was working in South America, not africa. I called him on his phone and he answered and confirmed it was a scam and he had been hacked. I quickly called several other folks I know who were in his email list and one of them was headed to the western union office as I called. He was about to send quite a bit of money to a scammer in africa. You have to be careful.

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