‘Mom, I Crashed the Car!’: Scammers Clone Son’s Voice to Ask Parents for $15,000 Bailout

A family from San Francisco went through a horrific ordeal with scammers who used voice-cloning technology to try and persuade parents to pay for their son’s bail. Due to advancements in AI, a scammer simply needs a sample of the person’s image and voice to generate a convincing likeness. Phone the person’s family, add in a sense of urgency, and they can easily trick them into sending money to save their loved one from a dangerous, albeit fake, scenario. The Trapp family living in the San Fran