AI voice scams on the rise: ‘Scammer’s voice was exactly like my nephew’s’

Updated On: 18 January, 2024 06:40 AM IST | Mumbai | Shirish Vaktania

AI-generated voice simulates relative’s tone, putting pressure on victim to transfer money immediately; here are some precautions you can take

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Scamsters have started using Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to dupe their unsuspecting victims, as seen in a recent incident. A 70-year-old man from Andheri was cheated out of Rs 3.7 lakh. The scamster used AI to make a cloned voice call pretending to be the man’s nephew residing in the United States. In the cloned voice of the complainant’s nephew, the fraudster claimed that he had been kidnapped and his passport would be destroyed unless he paid up.

The complainant in the case, Jaswant Singh Kalsi is an electrical contractor residing at J B Nagar in Andheri East. He informed the police that the scamster cloned the voice of his nephew, Jeevan Singh, in order to get him to transfer money to a specified account. The Andheri police registered an FIR against the unknown scamster and during the investigation, discovered that the Rs 3.7 lakh was transferred to an account that originated in Delhi, after which it was transferred to multiple accounts within minutes.

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