Florida Man's Voice Cloned to Scam Parents for Rs. 25 Lakhs

AI is can imitate humans in every way and it is very scary. Scammers in Florida, US used Artificial Intelligence (AI) to recreate the voice a young man and try to get $30,000, which is over Rs. 25 lakhs from his parents.

Jay Shooster, currently running for the Florida State House took to his social media account X to share his experience. The post read, "Today, my dad got a phone call no parent ever wants to get. He heard me tell him I was in a serious car accident, injured, and under arrest for a DUI and I needed $30,000 to be bailed out of jail. But it wasn't me. There was no accident. It was an AI scam." 

This incident occurred just days after he appeared on local TV for his election campaign.  "Fifteen seconds of me talking. More than enough to make a decent AI clone," he said.

Shooster said that he never thought something like this would ever happen to him. “I've literally given presentations about this exact sort of scam, posted online about it, and I've talked to my family about it, but they still almost fell for it. That's how effective these scams are. Please spread the word to your friends and family.”

"A very sad side-effect of this voice-cloning tech is that now people in real emergencies will have to prove their identities to their loved ones with passwords etc," he wrote.