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Scammers are using AI to bilk victims out of millions: Here’s how to protect yourself (grandkids voice)
NY Post ^ | 5/23/25 | Brandon Cruz

Posted on 05/23/2025 8:21:59 PM PDT by Libloather

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To: nopardons
And look at the phone #!

"Hi, you don't know me, but I'm a friend of 'little Johnny' / 'little Mary' and he/she is sitting in jail right now. They confiscated his/her phone, so he/she asked me to call you and ask for bail money!"

Doesn't even require imitating the voice of the victim's alleged grandson/granddaughter!

If I were a scammer, I wouldn't even mention the police - say instead that the grandson/granddaughter was accused of shoplifting (untrue, of course!) and is currently being held by store security. "If you could pay (Venmo?) the $15 for the item he/she allegedly stole, the store manager says they'll forget the whole thing. Problem is, your grandson/granddaughter can't pay himself/herself - for technical reasons."

Regards,

21 posted on 05/24/2025 2:19:36 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

“(And God help any caller representing a Democrat candidate.)”
Meanwhile, Generation X is being scammed out of trillions of dollars being spent on windmills which promise to improve the weather.


22 posted on 05/24/2025 4:21:35 AM PDT by brookwood (51 Intelligence Agents Say Global Warming Is An Existential Crisis)
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To: Libloather

“Little johnny is already in jail, so you are a scammer.”


23 posted on 05/24/2025 5:03:58 AM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: dynachrome

👍👍


24 posted on 05/24/2025 5:18:09 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: dynachrome

“Johnny is a bad kid. If he is in jail that is where he belongs.”

Lol.


25 posted on 05/24/2025 5:20:26 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: Libloather
1988 song from Was Not Was: Hello Dad. I'm in Jail

Same album as their hit "Walk the Dinosaur"

26 posted on 05/24/2025 5:24:03 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
A) stop answering the phone if the caller is unfamiliar, B) delete and report spam text messages arriving at your mobile phone, C) agitate for laws to hunt down and, uh, **** robocaller vendors. Until there's a real pricetag, this ******** will continue. It's the only useful domestic purpose to having all this NSA tech.

27 posted on 05/24/2025 8:24:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: dagunk
Use an app called ‘knowncalls’.

On iphone phone app, you can turn on "Silence Unknown Callers" This sends callers not in Contacts to voicemail.

28 posted on 05/24/2025 1:04:21 PM PDT by FatherofFive (we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor)
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