The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence

Post by psygn89 » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 2:32 PM UTC

offsign wrote: post #22

Sounds like AI is just greasing the wheels of a long established 'grandparent scam'... goes something like this: 1) voice one: young adult calls, sobbing 2) grandparent inquires with a name... "Ben, is that you?" 3) voice one: "Yes grandma, it's me, Ben... I'm in trouble, please don't tell mom 4) voice two: "Hello, I'm attorney..." My grandmother fell victim to this almost 20 years ago, which only stopped when Wester…

Post by rightbyte » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 2:36 PM UTC

TacticalCoder wrote: post #26

revolvingthrow wrote: post #20

The problem described in the article is unsolvable, given that a mid-range desktop from a few years ago can easily clone a voice that's convincing enough and there are no guardrails to those. Some silly KYC laws might limit a highschool kid making deepfakes of his crush, but once a model exists it's trivial to spread it around, and for organized groups to get ahold of those. Similar will happen with images, it's just…

I don't know about that but finding excuses for the scum of this earth is certainly not a solution. Take Europe for example: nobody dies of hunger in Europe. And yet there are plenty of thieves. People stealing tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of EUR aren't doing it to "feed their families". Think of the situation today. Think of the victims today . Instead of thinking of tomorrow's hypothetical sit…

Post by abirch » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 2:37 PM UTC

Foobar8568 wrote: post #36

offsign wrote: post #22

Sounds like AI is just greasing the wheels of a long established 'grandparent scam'... goes something like this: 1) voice one: young adult calls, sobbing 2) grandparent inquires with a name... "Ben, is that you?" 3) voice one: "Yes grandma, it's me, Ben... I'm in trouble, please don't tell mom 4) voice two: "Hello, I'm attorney..." My grandmother fell victim to this almost 20 years ago, which only stopped when Wester…

I told my parents that I will never ask for money, doesn't matter the situation, even with live video, it's trivial to generate live audio and video nowadays. I hope they got the message.

Post by mrngld » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 2:37 PM UTC

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #17

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

who is they?

The US government

Post by reactordev » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 2:39 PM UTC

fouc wrote: post #34

reactordev wrote: post #9

What’s terrible is each time I am forced to call the bank, the more they try to tell me voice ID is secure and want me to provide my voice to authenticate. Never. Did ya’ll never play Uplink? With voice cloning as good as it is now, there’s no way a voice ID is secure enough for authentication.

name and shame the bank