A mother reportedly got a scam call saying her daughter had been kidnapped and she'd have to pay a ransom. The 'kidnapper' cloned the daughter's voice using AI.
A mother reportedly got a call from a scammer who cloned her daughter's voice to pretend he'd kidnapped her.– a local news station affiliated with CBS – that she received a call from a number listed as unknown. When she answered it, she could hear her 15-year-old daughter crying and saying things like,"mom, I messed up." Her daughter was out of town on a ski trip at the time, she said.
DeStefano said that a man's voice then came on the line, telling her daughter to put her head back and lie down. "Listen here, I've got your daughter," the scammer reportedly said, according to DeStefano's account of the call. In the background, her daughter pleaded for DeStefano's help. The voice"100%" belonged to her daughter, she told the local news site."It was completely her voice. It was her inflection. It was the way she would have cried. I never doubted for one second it was her," she added.
DeStefano said she was asked for money. First, the scammer started with $1 million, then, after she said she didn't have that much money, it was lowered to $50,000.detailing the call, DeStefano said:"The"kidnapper" was demanding $50k in cash and was arranging how he was going to pick me up with the money and bag my head ... I was warned I better have the money or we would both be dead," she said.
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