AI voice scams can clone your family’s voice

AI voice scams use as little as three seconds of audio from social media or voicemails to clone voices, enabling scammers to impersonate family members and demand money. These scams surged 1,210% in 2025, with potential global losses reaching $40 billion by 2027. Scammers exploit data broker websites to obtain personal details and target vulnerable individuals, such as elderly parents, using cloned voices of their loved ones.