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The dangers of voice fraud: We can’t detect what we can’t see
Effectively combating voice fraud requires a combination of education, caution, business practices, technology and government regulation.
And I won’t even get into the hundreds — if not thousands — of celebrity videos that have circulated the internet in the last few years, from Taylor Swift’s pornography scandal, to Mark Zuckerberg’s sinister speech about Facebook’s power. By now, we are desensitized to low fidelity audio — from poor signal, to background static, to distortions — which makes it incredibly difficult to distinguish a real anomaly. That’s one reason most mobile operators, including T-Mobile, Verizon and others, make free services available to block — or at least identify and warn of — suspected scam calls.
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