Scam Radar
Vishing scammers spoof real bank, police and customs numbers to extract OTPs and transfers in real time. AI voice cloning made the script more convincing in 2024-2025. We track the active variants and the one rule that defeats them: hang up, call back the official number.
Criminals are using unsolicited FaceTime calls to impersonate Apple Support, banks, or financial institutions, pressuring victims into sharing card details, online banking credentials, Apple ID...
A wave of voice-phishing (vishing) calls is targeting Microsoft 365 users across multiple sectors. The caller pretends to be internal IT or a security analyst and pressures the victim into enrolling...
Document delivery scams use robocalls claiming that legal papers must be served at your home or workplace, pressuring victims to call back and hand over personal or payment information. Red flags -...
Europol warns that caller-ID and SMS sender-ID spoofing now underpins roughly 64% of reported phone/text fraud and costs an estimated EUR 850M globally per year, offered by organised networks as...
In 2025 the FBI IC3 received more than 22,000 complaints citing AI involvement, with losses exceeding USD 893 million. Criminals use generative AI to: clone a relative's or executive's voice from...
Scammers are impersonating court officials and law enforcement to threaten you with arrest for missing jury duty, pressuring you to pay a fine on the spot. They use phone calls, texts, and emails...
Scammers reach out through texts, phone calls, social media ads, and direct messages, so anyone with a phone or a social account is a likely target. Their first contact is designed to build trust...
Victim Googles 'Coinbase support number', clicks paid ad to scam call center. Or unsolicited call from spoofed Coinbase number ('unauthorised login from Lagos'). Agent uses TeamViewer/AnyDesk and...
Finance employee receives Teams/Zoom call where the CEO's voice and (increasingly) video are AI-generated using ElevenLabs / HeyGen / public earnings call footage. Voice instructs urgent wire to 'M&A...
Senior in Ontario/Quebec/BC receives call from 'grandson in custody' (sometimes a Telegram-recruited Canadian courier on payroll, sometimes AI voice clone), with a 'duty counsel lawyer' explaining...
Caller spoofs bank's number, claims 'fraud team detected a £499 Amazon transaction, do you authorise?' — when victim says no, scammer says 'we'll send you a code to confirm cancellation, read it...
Caller (sometimes AI voice clone of grandchild from social media samples) tells grandparent 'I've been arrested / in an accident, don't tell mom and dad, I need $9,000 bail in cash'. A 'bail...
Jan 2024: AI-voiced robocall impersonating Joe Biden told New Hampshire Democrats not to vote in the primary. Operator (Steve Kramer) later prosecuted; FCC subsequently ruled AI-voiced robocalls...
Scammers train voice-clone on a popular singer (Drake, Taylor Swift, The Weeknd, Bocelli), generate 'private unreleased track' or 'personal voicemail', then DM superfans on Instagram / X: 'I made...
AI voice clone impersonating IRS / Agenzia Entrate / Steuerverwaltung calls claiming you owe back-taxes and threatens arrest unless you pay via crypto / gift card / wire to 'government settlement...
Scammer spoofs the bank's official anti-fraud number on caller-ID, then a voice cloned from a real customer-service rep (sometimes recorded from an earlier social-engineering call) tells you 'we...
Family receives screaming call: 'mom they grabbed me, do everything they say', followed by an 'abductor' demanding immediate ransom in crypto/Zelle/wire. The 'victim' voice is a clone built from...
Scammers scrape 30 seconds of voice from TikTok/Instagram/YouTube/voicemail-greeting, run it through a $0-$10 cloning tool (e.g. ElevenLabs free tier abuse, open-source TTS), then call a senior...
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