AI voice cloning scams on the rise, expert warns

Scammers are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) tools to clone the voices of individuals they target on social media to place panicked calls to their family or friends in the hope of convincing the unwitting recipient of the call to give them money or access to sensitive information.

Mike Scheumack, the chief innovation officer at identity theft protection and credit score monitoring firm IdentityIQ, told FOX Business that, “AI has been around for a long time and software companies have been using it to advance technology for a while. We’ve seen it start entering into this kind of cybercriminal space slowly, then all of the sudden just ramp up very quickly over the past year or