Shirley Martin
Well-known member
My phone rung Thursday. It was a name that sounded familiar, but I couldn't quite place it. So, I let the answering machine take it. A voice spoke a greeting. The voice sounded exactly like my relative, “Q”. I would have answered it, but Q uses a distinct greeting and would not have used this one.
My AARP bulletin came later that day. Coincidentally, it has an article on scammers this issue. One segment was about a mother who got scammed. She got a call that seemed to be from her daughter. She said that she had been in an accident and the other driver was a pregnant woman. She needed $15,000 for bond money. She paid the money. Then there was another call that the woman had lost the baby and wanted $30,000 more. Her 16-year-old grandson intervened. He found that his mom was at work.
The woman thinks that the scammer got a snippet of her daughter’s voice from a Facebook audio and created an AI voice. “There is no way that you could have told me that that was not my daughter’s voice.”
From the article……..
“Scammers love AI. Half of all email scams are generated with AI. AI doesn’t sleep, it’s cheap and it works 24/7. And it works well. With a photo from LinkedIn and three seconds of your voice, a scammer can create a deepfake video with audio. Deepfake videos can look completely real, even to trained professionals".
Last September, Dr. David Amron watched a Facebook video of himself with growing horror. A recognized specialist in lipedema surgery, he saw and heard himself hawking a $50 dollar “miracle” cream for this painful, incurable condition. But he had never made the video or endorsed the product. It was a deepfake scam. And it was so convincing that some of his patients bought the cream. The deepfake video also featured Oprah Winfrey, and Kelly Clarkson. “This level of realism is exactly these scams are why so dangerous”, he said. "They are engineered to be believable, making it easy for vulnerable patients to trust them.”
It goes on to say that many political videos on the internet are deep fake including some of President Trump, Elon Musk, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders.
You can’t trust your eyes and ears anymore if you see it on the internet.
My AARP bulletin came later that day. Coincidentally, it has an article on scammers this issue. One segment was about a mother who got scammed. She got a call that seemed to be from her daughter. She said that she had been in an accident and the other driver was a pregnant woman. She needed $15,000 for bond money. She paid the money. Then there was another call that the woman had lost the baby and wanted $30,000 more. Her 16-year-old grandson intervened. He found that his mom was at work.
The woman thinks that the scammer got a snippet of her daughter’s voice from a Facebook audio and created an AI voice. “There is no way that you could have told me that that was not my daughter’s voice.”
From the article……..
“Scammers love AI. Half of all email scams are generated with AI. AI doesn’t sleep, it’s cheap and it works 24/7. And it works well. With a photo from LinkedIn and three seconds of your voice, a scammer can create a deepfake video with audio. Deepfake videos can look completely real, even to trained professionals".
Last September, Dr. David Amron watched a Facebook video of himself with growing horror. A recognized specialist in lipedema surgery, he saw and heard himself hawking a $50 dollar “miracle” cream for this painful, incurable condition. But he had never made the video or endorsed the product. It was a deepfake scam. And it was so convincing that some of his patients bought the cream. The deepfake video also featured Oprah Winfrey, and Kelly Clarkson. “This level of realism is exactly these scams are why so dangerous”, he said. "They are engineered to be believable, making it easy for vulnerable patients to trust them.”
It goes on to say that many political videos on the internet are deep fake including some of President Trump, Elon Musk, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders.
You can’t trust your eyes and ears anymore if you see it on the internet.
