Marketplace investigates how artificial intelligence is helping scammers steal money
Always use the proper dialect when talking to your folks!
So when your fake voice talks to them in formal language, they know immediately that it isn’t you.
At least for a few more years, and at least in Europe, where dialects are still strong and dialect regions super small, this is a strong protection.
Also a good idea to have a password or code phrase. This is something that’s been advised for child abductions for years now.
“Your mom sent me to pick you up.”
“What’s the password?”
“. . .”
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This would work with my mother but my dad is terrible when it comes to this stuff.
He’ll send me the most obvious scam email the world has ever seen asking me if it’s legitimate, it will it will be some IRS scam wanting him to pay back $10,000 with Apple gift cards, I’m like dad, you’re not even American.
Basis for a super fun movie last year:
Thelma:
Bonus: The actress, June Squibb, is legit 95 years old(!)
Yeah but now the voice says hes been picked up by ice and they are sending them off and don’t care about his citizenship or due process.
Quite a few countries in Europe have just stopped short of telling their citizens not to go to the US anymore. ICE are going to utterly destroy US tourism, an industry worth about 3 trillion a year, because they keep detaining people from first world countries who definitely don’t want to sneak into the US. They detained a British national a few weeks ago who was trying to enter Canada, she was actively leaving.
Simpsons did an episode on this years ago. It was a whole episode dedicated to common scams.
“Simpsons did it!” – South Park
