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You Need to Create a Secret Password With Your Family
AI voice cloning and deepfakes are supercharging scams. One method to protect your loved ones and yourself is to create secret code words to verify someone’s identity in real time.
“Fraudsters will use manipulation tactics to put the victim in a vulnerable state where they act out of panic, urgency, or a strong desire,” says Erin Englund, a director of threat analytics at fraud-detection firm BioCatch. Machine learning has allowed criminals to create deepfake videos impersonating people and to clone voices with only a few seconds of audio. Tobac says companies she has worked with have been on the receiving end of AI voice-cloned calls, which also use spoofed phone numbers, that try to impersonate business executives.
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