{"id":220471,"date":"2026-05-26T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/california-mom-out-thousands-after-scammers-use-ai-to-mimic-daughters-voice-in-fake-kidnapping-part-of-growing-trend\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:20:16","slug":"california-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\/26\/california-mom-out-thousands-after-scammers-use-ai-to-mimic-daughters-voice-in-fake-kidnapping-part-of-growing-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"California 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:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/california-mom-thousands-scammers-use-ai-mimic-daughters-voice-fake-kidnapping-part-growing-trend\/19175361\/\">California 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:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/california-mom-thousands-scammers-use-ai-mimic-daughters-voice-fake-kidnapping-part-growing-trend\/19175361\/\">https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/california-mom-thousands-scammers-use-ai-mimic-daughters-voice-fake-kidnapping-part-growing-trend\/19175361\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-26 14:11:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"6abc.com\">6abc.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A California woman lost thousands of dollars after scammers used AI to mimic her daughter&#8217;s voice in a sophisticated phone scam.<\/li>\n<li>The scammer initially claimed that the woman&#8217;s daughter was kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel, and the fake voice recording heightened the urgency.<\/li>\n<li>The woman followed the scammer&#8217;s instructions, wiring $5,400 to Mexico before realizing it was a scam when her daughter appeared unharmed.<\/li>\n<li>Experts warn that scammers are increasingly using AI to clone voices, and this new method of fraud is becoming more widespread, termed a &#8220;scamdemic.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Authorities advise being cautious of urgent requests, especially those involving money, and suggest using secret code words to verify the legitimacy of callers.<\/li>\n<li>Victims advise not answering random numbers and suggest sharing real-time locations with family as potential safety measures.<\/li>\n<li>Law enforcement is investigating but the victim does not expect to recover the stolen funds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California mom out thousands after scammers use AI to mimic daughter&#8217;s voice in fake kidnapping;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220472,"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-220471","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\/220471"}],"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=220471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220473,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220471\/revisions\/220473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}