Gullible mother falls for voice cloning scam even though her son would obviously never call

A 74-year-old woman lost over $60 000 from her retirement savings yesterday in a sophisticated, but in her situation, quite obvious scam, police say.

Gina Rossi was just preparing to go out and do her weekly grocery shopping when she received a call which, unbeknownst to her, was from a scam artist who had used AI to deepfake her 31-year-old son, Andrew’s voice. This was unnecessary, because Rossi has only spoken to her son twice in the past seven years, and probably would not recognize his voice anyway. [...]