As if telephone, email and messenger scams weren’t bad enough, a new breed of scammers can now use artificial intelligence to clone the voices of loved ones. No, this is not dystopian science fiction.

As technology advances, scams are becoming quite sophisticated. One of the latest threats is AI voice cloning which a malicious party can use to make it seem like they have a loved one held hostage.

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