a new warning is being issued about AI Impostors we're talking about scammers who can clone any of our voices using artificial intelligence and it's not very difficult but experts have tips on how not to become a victim while some of us are still trying to avoid cell phone scams and fishing and emails from Nigerian princes offering US money the expansion of AI is creating a new type of fraud called AI impostor scams and experts say it's time for a wakeup call it's really easy to make up fake videos and make fake audios these days and
scammers all over the world are doing it to influence us in all different ways last year AI impostor scamps reportedly became the number one form of fraud with over 850,000 cases swindling victims out of some $2.7 billion one of the most common is getting a call from someone close to us in distress mom these bad men have me help me help me help me she begged and pleaded as the phone was taking from her that's Arizona mom Jennifer Deano as she testified before Congress last year of the horror of receiving a frantic call from her
daughter saying she'd been kidnapped and that her abductors were demanding money but as real as it sounded it was a clone a scam it was my daughter's voice it was her cries it was her sobs it was the way she spoke I will never be able to shake that voice and the desperate cries for help out of my mind law enforcement in New York City tell Fox 5 AI imposter scams are on the r here in New York too experts say there is one key way to protect ourselves using a safe word or phrase or
piece of information AI can't come up with if you ask it very specific questions like hey where did we meet or what did we have for dinner last night the scammer probably wouldn't be able to use that as a response so having some sort of quick challengeing responses is good for everybody now experts tell Fox 5 a lot of the scammers are based outside the US in places like Eastern Europe and parts of Asia where education is strong but where the employment Market is weak and they say until the federal government and Congress gets involved
here it is up to us to protect ourselves
