{"id":219392,"date":"2026-05-24T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/bay-area-mom-out-thousands-after-scammers-use-ai-to-mimic-daughters-voice-in-fake-kidnapping-part-of-growing-trend\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T17:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:05:12","slug":"bay-area-mom-out-thousands-after-scammers-use-ai-to-mimic-daughters-voice-in-fake-kidnapping-part-of-growing-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/bay-area-mom-out-thousands-after-scammers-use-ai-to-mimic-daughters-voice-in-fake-kidnapping-part-of-growing-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area mom out thousands after scammers use AI to mimic daughter&#8217;s voice in fake kidnapping; part of growing trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/bay-area-mom-thousands-scammers-use-ai-mimic-daughters-voice-fake-kidnapping-part-growing-trend\/19154381\/\">Bay Area mom out thousands after scammers use AI to mimic daughter&#8217;s voice in fake kidnapping; part of growing trend<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/bay-area-mom-thousands-scammers-use-ai-mimic-daughters-voice-fake-kidnapping-part-growing-trend\/19154381\/\">https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/bay-area-mom-thousands-scammers-use-ai-mimic-daughters-voice-fake-kidnapping-part-growing-trend\/19154381\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-24 16:52:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"abc7news.com\">abc7news.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deborah Del Mastro was scammed out of $5,400 after scammers used AI to mimic her daughter&#8217;s voice.<\/li>\n<li>The scammers claimed her daughter was kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel, manipulating her fear to make her transfer money.<\/li>\n<li>They provided a &#8220;proof&#8221; of her daughter&#8217;s voice, adding a panicked layer to their deceitful calls.<\/li>\n<li>Del Mastro followed the scammer&#8217;s instructions for hours before realizing it was a scam.<\/li>\n<li>Erin West from Operation Shamrock explains the increasing use of AI and deepfake technology in escalating fraud.<\/li>\n<li>West warns the public about the urgency and manipulation tactics used to trigger immediate money transfers.<\/li>\n<li>She suggests using a secret code word known only to family to verify genuine claims.<\/li>\n<li>Del Mastro advises caution against random numbers and recommends sharing real-time locations with family as preventive measures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bay Area mom out thousands after scammers use AI to mimic daughter&#8217;s voice in fake&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.abcotvs.com\/dip\/images\/19163624_052426-kgo-ai-kidnap-scam-img.jpg?w=1600","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219394,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219392\/revisions\/219394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}