{"id":222420,"date":"2026-05-29T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:16:00","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-the-mercury-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:35:12","slug":"ai-voice-cloning-scams-are-on-the-rise-heres-how-to-protect-yourself-the-mercury-news","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-the-mercury-news\/","title":{"rendered":"AI \u2018voice cloning\u2019 scams are on the rise. Here\u2019s how to protect yourself \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/05\/29\/ai-voice-cloning-scams-are-on-the-rise-heres-how-to-protect-yourself\/\">AI \u2018voice cloning\u2019 scams are on the rise. Here\u2019s how to protect yourself \u2013 The Mercury News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/05\/29\/ai-voice-cloning-scams-are-on-the-rise-heres-how-to-protect-yourself\/\">https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/05\/29\/ai-voice-cloning-scams-are-on-the-rise-heres-how-to-protect-yourself\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-29 10:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.mercurynews.com\">www.mercurynews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are the key points from the article by Clare Duffy for CNN, regarding AI voice cloning scams:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; An East Bay mother was recently scammed out of thousands of dollars after receiving a call purported to be from her distressed daughter, potentially an AI-generated hoax.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The FBI reported that Americans lost over $893 million to AI-related scams last year, including attacks using voice cloning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Scammers can create realistic replicas of anyone&#8217;s voice using AI tools, utilizing just a few seconds of real speech often found on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; These fraudsters mimic people in distress, typically faking kidnappings or jail situations, to demand money for release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Advanced techniques like \u201cvoice skinning\u201d and caller ID spoofing make these scams even more convincing and harder to detect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; To avoid falling victim, it&#8217;s recommended to look for overall scam warning signs: unusual urgency, secrecy, and large money requests, instead of trying to determine voice authenticity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It&#8217;s advisable for targets to contact their loved one through other means and consider establishing precautionary &#8220;code words&#8221; to verify identities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Experts suggest that it&#8217;s better to doubt the legitimacy of a call than to potentially be caught in a scam.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI \u2018voice cloning\u2019 scams are on the rise. Here\u2019s how to protect yourself \u2013 The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AI_8216voice_cloning8217_scams_are_on_the_rise.jpg?w=1024&h=576","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222420","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\/222420"}],"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=222420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222422,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222420\/revisions\/222422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}