Active scam alerts
- AI Voice Clone Scams ("Mom, it's me")How three seconds of audio becomes a family emergency — and the code word that stops it.
- Deepfake Video Call ScamsFake bosses and fake family on live video. What breaks the illusion.
- How to Verify Suspicious AI ContentThe universal 5-minute checklist: call back, code word, reverse-search, slow down.
The one defense that beats everything
Technology will keep improving the fakes. The defense that does not depend on spotting them is verification through a second channel: hang up and call back on a known number, ask for the family code word, show up in person for big money. Every alert we publish ends there, because it is the only advice that survives every new model.
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