Pay close attention to this new scam that you will surely be interested in knowing about. The National Institute of Cybersecurity (INCIBE) has launched an alert about A new type of scam that uses artificial intelligence to clone the voices of relatives and thus deceive victims through phone calls.
How does this scam that INCIBE warns about work? Scammers obtain audio clips of the victim’s voice, such as from previous calls or videos on the internet, and use them to train AI-based voice cloning software.
This software is able to reproduce voices with a high degree of realism, allowing scammers to impersonate the victim’s relatives. If someone knows your relationship to another person and records it to use against you, you are almost 100% sure to be dead.
Once they have convincingly cloned the voice, the scammers call the victim and ask for personal or banking information, such as passwords, account numbers or credit card details. In some cases, they may also ask for immediate money transfers.
How can such AI-generated fake calls be identified?
The truth is that voice cloning with artificial intelligence is just one of the many AI tools that have gained importance in 2023 and is back on the front pages in 2024. This is something that since Computer Today This was witnessed first-hand. In this case, cybersecurity experts, with the idea of showing how “easy” it is, obtained the phone number of Juan Antonio Calles, CEO of Zerolynx, to use his voice and try to deceive his own company.
As to how this huge problem that is only going to get worse could be solved, There may be several ways to end it..
It is true, and taking into account that these are tools that transform voices live, it is very difficult to verify whether it is your relative or not, unless you start to distrust everyone and start asking key questions that only the real person knows.
In this case it seems that the “solution” falls directly on you.. Taking into account that you will only have your own ears to be able to identify whether or not it is a false call, there are certain aspects that you can take into account and that INCIBE itself recommends:
- Be suspicious if the call is from a strange number.
- Do you notice that person’s voice sounds a bit strange, lifeless or even a bit robotic? Be careful.
- If he doesn’t pause too much when speaking, that can be a great indicator.
- In these cases, if you ask a question, you will notice that the answer, even though it is already classified as “live”, will have a small pause before continuing to speak for about two or three seconds.
- You may also find that you are in too much of a hurry to make certain transactions in your account or to give them too much personal information.
In addition to the recommendations, data science and artificial intelligence expert Rubén Maestre adds for Newtral It is important to be aware of the amount of personal information you share on the Internet, so it is important to be cautious.
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Tags: Smartphones, Artificial Intelligence, Software, Cybersecurity
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