Your phone rings. It's your son's voice. Panicked. He says he's been in a car accident. He hurt someone. He's about to be arrested. He needs $15,000 wired before the end of the day, and please, don't tell anyone yet. You'd wire the money. Of course you would. Except it isn't your son.
It's a scammer who spent about 10 minutes online, pulled three seconds of audio from a Facebook video your son posted last Christmas, and fed it into an AI voice cloning tool that costs less than a Netflix subscription. The voice that broke your heart wasn't real. The emergency wasn't real. But the $15,000 transfer? That would have been.
This is already happening to families right now, in every state. And what most people don't understand is that the voice clone is actually the easy part. What makes these attacks so devastatingly effective is everything that happens before the call.
