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US mother gets call from ‘kidnapped daughter’ – but it’s really an AI scam (web.archive.org)

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After being scammed into thinking her daughter was kidnapped, an Arizona woman testified in the US Senate about the dangers side of artificial intelligence technology when in the hands of criminals.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A similar thing happened to me and my husband. We were out of state on vacation, and got a call and visit from the police at 3 am saying that my husband had been kidnapped for ransom. Of course he was laying right next to me, but for half a second I was terrified. It was a complete scam. They think they found my husband's information in a data hack at his school.