Chinese conveyors are making fake calls to record voices of people, cloning these voices with AI, and circumventing their usually elderly family members with requests for landline money.
A Gang of Burlons is acting in China with a sophisticated scheme that aims elderlywho live in houses where there is still a landline to work.
Within the scope of the scam, the elderly who answer the call think they are talking to a loved one, who “urgently needs money” – when in reality the voice of the interlocutor was generated by from a previously recorded false call.
It accounts for the recent case of an elderly woman, residing in the province of Hubei, in the center of the country, which was deceived by a version generated by AI of her grandson.
Recently, the woman, nicknamed Liu, received a call from her grandson’s landline – who I was sobbing And I told him that he had injured a person’s head in a supermarket. The injured person had been hospitalized and was demanding 20,000 yuan (2,540 euros) of compensation.
The “grandson” said that he was in a police station, needed the money to be released, and He begged him not to count What was going on to your mother; otherwise it would “skill“.
Liu started to comfort his grandson, but when he asked him what police squad was, he suddenly hung up. The elderly then dealt with call for money borrowed to family and friends and waited for the “grandson” to call him Again, as it was not dared to notify your parents or school.
A few hours later, the grandson called him again and agreed with the elderly woman who A colleague’s father would collect the moneyin a place 20 minutes from her house.
When Liu met with the “father of the colleague” to give him the money, the “grandson” called the individual, who passed the phone to the elderly. “You can give you the money,” said the “grandson” voice on the phone.
Liu thought that the case was resolved And he didn’t speak to any other family member about it. However, a few days later, when the real grandson visited her, she asked her about the case-and realized that it had been circumvented.
The burlada family filed a complaint to the local police, who found that another elderly woman had fallen into the same trap Just a few days before.
After viewing images from the street video surveillance chambers where the delivery of the money was made, the agents realized that the same man had collected money from the two victims involved in the case.
The man, nicknamed Zhang, said he thought he was just doing a part-time profitablewho paid him 1,000 yuan (140 euros) a day: he received instructions from someone who asked him to raise money to a given place and deliver it in another-where a gang member received him and disappeared.
Liu told the police that The voice of the telephone call sounded exactly like that of your grandson – who says he has Received many false calls at her house before the scam. The young man asked who was calling, but No one answered.
According to the police, this is a new trick used by the burns, who resort to Artificial intelligence to clone the voice of the victims of the false calls and then call your family and friends using the cloned voice.
The Burlons Deliberately call fixed phoneswhich are still in use in some homes of elderly people, to make the victims difficult to check the calls.
After the “”, now comes the “Hello grandmother” – with the voice of the grandson. AND In this case, the PSP recommendation . It is unfortunately ineffective.
