Is That Really Your Boss on the Phone?
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Your phone rings. It’s your company’s president requesting you transfer money to a new supplier. “Of course,” you say, glad she thought of you for the task.
The problem is, it wasn’t your boss calling from the other side of the building but a scammer, half a world away, hiding behind an AI-generated replica of her voice. Those funds are now gone.
Swindlers have been using this sort of and sent almost a quarter of a million dollars to a scammer. “The U.K. CEO recognized his boss’ slight German accent and the melody of his voice on the phone,” reported about the incident. The next year, a Hong Kong bank manager began fulfilling a request was coming from the company’s director to transfer $35 million as part of a (fabricated) merger.
