Washington, United States, June 3, 2026 (AFP) - '20 minutes of terror': AI boosts US voice impersonation scams

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2026-06-03

Liz Benz still believes the distressed caller's voice was her son's -- the tone, enunciation and cadence all matched her 16-year-old. But it was an AI clone, making the American mother yet another victim of a growing wave of impersonation scams. Rapidly evolving artificial intelligence technology has demolished the boundaries between reality and fiction, handing cybercriminals strikingly convincing voice cloning tools to steal from people by mim......

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