Beware of AI

[Lady Sarah]

Scammers are now using AI to record your voice on the phone, and use that to steal your identity. With social security breaches along with bank breaches and other security failures, your information is likely already out there.


It makes me miss the good old days when we didn't need to worry about criminals on other continents stealing from us.

 

[Jimi]

If they don't stop it soon AI will run the world and I don't look for it to be a good place

 

[Bliss Doubt]

Scammers are now using AI to record your voice on the phone, and use that to steal your identity. With social security breaches along with bank breaches and other security failures, your information is likely already out there.

It makes me miss the good old days when we didn't need to worry about criminals on other continents stealing from us.

A thing I've heard is that when someone calls and says "is this Lady Sarah", never answer "yes", because they capture your voice and your "yes" and use it to defraud you. Instead, answer "this is".

Lately I've been getting phone calls and I hear a strange kind of noise, not a beep, but a "cleeek" sort of, after I say hello. I hang up immediately.

 

[Bliss Doubt]

Sometimes I like to mess with scam callers too, like this one:

 

[Lady Sarah]

A thing I've heard is that when someone calls and says "is this Lady Sarah", never answer "yes", because they capture your voice and your "yes" and use it to defraud you. Instead, answer "this is".

Lately I've been getting phone calls and I hear a strange kind of noise, not a beep, but a "cleeek" sort of, after I say hello. I hang up immediately.

The old "don't say yes" was good advice. What AI is doing now is sampling your voice, to create an artificial voice that sounds like you, for the purpose of fooling your bank and credit card companies.

Imagine: 5 years after you kick the bucket; some AI is fooling your credit card company into processing another large loan in your name just because you are obviously still alive, and need to buy another sports car.