How Do You Guard Your Family from AI-powered Deepfake Scams?

Published on 2024-11-14 by Silver Keskkula

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Today we’re launching ScamGuardian.AI - a website that helps defend your family from AI-powered deepfake scams through training that includes calling them with fake but safe mini-scams with your own cloned voice.

There is an AI-scam Tsunami at the Horizon

There's a tsunami of scam calls imitating the voice and/or appearance of our children or parents at the horizon and most of us are ill-prepared. It only takes a few short examples of your voice from a video on the internet or from a seemingly innocent sales person's call to create an AI-replica of your voice. And that’s just the start - progress on video is not far behind. google trends for ai scams

The tools to replicate your voice are publicly available for free and there is nothing stopping fraudsters from creating a digital copy of your voice to essentially say anything they want using your very own voice.

"Do you want to know how your parents, grandparents or children react to a distress call with your voice? Do you know what they might be willing to do when put under time pressure and hearing their loved ones in trouble?"

I know it’s scary to think about the answers. Not having confidence in your family's response and admitting they might be at risk feels quite uncomfortable.

The Popular Fix Just Doesn’t Work!

You know you could just call your parents RIGHT NOW and tell them about these scams and warn them. You could even teach them simple tricks for how to handle these calls. The trouble is

We all know you won’t do it!

Be honest with yourself! After reading this article, you’re just going to close this page and at best consider doing this later, maybe next time when you visit your parents. Or perhaps you can do it when the danger is more acute and on the news regularly - you know when your friends' parents have lost money. You’re expecting your family not to be among the first in line.

I’m sure the criminals will wait until you’ve finally decided to make that educational call and only after that will they target your family.

And even if you did make that call right now - how long do you think your parents would remember your instructions? Do you think they will know what to do when that scam call comes in a week? How about in a year or two? Or what about the next advanced scam that uses video?

Here’s the Simplest Defense Against AI-powered Deepfake Voice Scams

You can start with solving three problems for your family with ScamGuardian.AI:

Get AI-scam defense training for your family done RIGHT NOW with only a few minutes. No waiting for the next family visit, no personal calls to them, no task to figure out what to teach them. Just get it done with a few clicks online right after reading this article!
Get it done in a way that your family will remember - a wake-up call that’s eye opening and perhaps even slightly scary, but nevertheless SAFE for everyone involved! It’s up to you if you warn them a test is coming or not.
Keep your family members regularly informed about the latest scam tactics and evolving threats and make sure they are prepared for what AI-criminals throw at them in the future.

How does ScamGuardian.AI work?

In short we copy your voice, call your family and test if they give up some basic info without realizing it wasn’t actually you calling them. This memorable experience serves as the first lesson in educating and preparing your family for the future.

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We built a tool that after listening to 30 seconds of your voice can make calls to your family members while pretending to be you. Using your voice - simulating modern scam tactics our tool tries to extract a small piece of information from your family members. The results of this test will reveal how exposed your family is while at the same time providing a memorable learning experience for everyone involved. Knowing that you already fell for an AI-scam (even if simulated) is different from knowing they might be coming.

What's next in the defense against AI-based deepfake scams?

We’re starting with this tool because there are no good solutions out there for the looming AI-threat right now and we would all benefit from a wakeup call. Good defense starts with taking care of the obvious weak points right away. Sitting on the beach hoping the AI-scam tsunami will hit after more elaborate defenses have been built is an option but one that we would NOT recommend. We all need basic protection in place right now! We can already see the tsunami wave coming and your family needs to get to higher ground ASAP!

This mini penetration test is a crucial first step in the defense against AI-scams and represents a part of the bigger picture - one that we will be building together with you. For now it’s time to get going, sign up on the link below and get to the higher ground!