

You’ll also want to beware of any phone calls you receive where no one is on the other end. "My dad is OK, but it doesn't take away from the fact that it was so incredibly traumatic and scary," Relli added. Relli says while the $500 she sent to the scammers isn’t a huge financial loss, the emotional toll was overwhelming. And then if they don't know that code word or they don't respond correctly, then you know that something's going on, something's fishy,” Behar said.

“When we get those types of calls, we can say that code word to actually verify that they are who they say they are. And lastly, set up a secret code word with your family members. That may be too hard for some of us to resist, and if that’s the case, Behar said you should make your account private so random people can’t access it to clone your voice. So what can you do to protect yourself and your loved ones? Behar said don’t upload videos containing your voice to social media. Once she uploaded it, she typed a sentence for her cloned voice to say. NBC 7 and Telemundo 20 Responds reporter Claudia Simones recorded a verbal consent, which was used to capture her voice to be cloned. To see how the technology works, we set up an account on the Resemble AI website.


“So they'll pull down your voice from social media and then they'll upload it to a website that charges less than $10 to generate a clip of your voice or of that voice based on the input that you give it,” Behar said. We don’t know for sure whether Relli's dad’s voice was actually cloned, but University of San Diego cybersecurity professor Nikolas Behar said artificial intelligence is making it easier to do. ‘These are pretty rare': meteor captured on video seen in San Diego, Tucson, Las Vegas
