{"id":222323,"date":"2026-05-29T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/ai-voice-cloning-scams-are-on-the-rise-heres-how-to-protect-yourself-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T06:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:45:21","slug":"ai-voice-cloning-scams-are-on-the-rise-heres-how-to-protect-yourself-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/ai-voice-cloning-scams-are-on-the-rise-heres-how-to-protect-yourself-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AI \u2018voice cloning\u2019 scams are on the rise. Here\u2019s how to protect yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/29\/tech\/ai-voice-cloning-scams-protect-yourself\">AI \u2018voice cloning\u2019 scams are on the rise. Here\u2019s how to protect yourself<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/29\/tech\/ai-voice-cloning-scams-protect-yourself\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/29\/tech\/ai-voice-cloning-scams-protect-yourself<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-29 05:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a summarized list with 5 key points from the article provided:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; A California mother lost thousands of dollars to scammers who used AI to clone her daughter&#8217;s voice in a sophisticated voice-clonning scam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; AI-generated voices are now so realistic that distinguishing between a real voice and an AI-generated one is extremely difficult for most people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Last year, Americans collectively lost more than $893 million to AI-related scams, including voice cloning and other types such as phishing and romance scams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Scammers often pose as a distressed family member or friend, demanding money under urgent circumstances, like claiming kidnapping or imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; To protect oneself, experts recommend verifying urgent calls through different means and setting up secret code words with loved ones to confirm identities.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI \u2018voice cloning\u2019 scams are on the rise. Here\u2019s how to protect yourself https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/29\/tech\/ai-voice-cloning-scams-protect-yourself Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-1092338922.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222323","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\/222323"}],"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=222323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222328,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222323\/revisions\/222328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}