Yeah the “scamming elderly people out of everything the own” industry is booming.
Just scrape all of a family’s public facing data and feed it in to a soulkiller algo then turn it against meemaw to steal her retirement.
The scams are insane, there are so many and they’re all good at convincing elderly people who are used to cold calls and call center talk.
Several people in my family have been hit and none of them are even that senile. They just got played for months before they actually executed the scam.
Worst one is they buy up helplines that are printed on old tech so when you call the “official” HP helpline on your decade old printer you get scammers pretending to be HP
I fucking despise this society.
I’m sure if I talked about how this technology is evil, and should be banned. I’ll have hordes of smuglords telling me that actually, scammers are sneaky geniuses that should be praised for outsmarting people.
Or we could…oh I don’t know. Not reward being a conniving snake?
First opsec tip: don’t use yourself on the online face swap ai, for neither the source picture nor the target video.
my family has a safe word that we have discussed only in a room with no electronics
Nigerian prince
“Hey, it’s Jimmy your nephew… What? You don’t know who I am?! I’m JImmy! Your nephew! Anyways - I’m in a real jam. Could you lend me some money right away?”
My grandmother got hit with one of these and lost $800. She claimed the person sounded exactly like me. My grandpa then got hit by the same scammer trying to double dip, but he was savvy enough to record the call. My grandma recognized the voice saying “Oh, listen! It sounds just like you!”
And it was a gruff, scratchy voice that had a Southeast Asian accent (I do not sound like that)
I think the idea is they can take the face of a known relative and do an impersonation of them. If the mark is moderately senile, it could work.
