Mar 06, 2023 13:00:00

Cases of using AI-made clone voice for 'Oreore fraud' are rapidly increasing, the amount of damage is nearly 1.5 billion yen annually

It has been reported that there are cases in which voices created using AI technology are being used in the '

It's me' scam , in which people pretend to be acquaintances to defraud money. In 2022, the amount of damage caused by the `` Ore Ore fraud '' in the United States alone has reached 11 million dollars (about 1.49 billion yen).

Scammers are now using AI to sound like family members.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/05/ai-voice-scam/

new: AI voice-cloning tech is making phone scams frighteningly believable.

I talked to some who got duped. They were elderly + heard their loved one needed cash now. They felt it might be a scam, but the voice sounded too real to ignore.

One lost $21k. https://t.co/pEEH5g5mku

— Pranshu Verma (@pranshuverma_) March 5, 2023

In the case of Ruth Card, who lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, a man who claims to be his grandson said, ``I have no wallet or mobile phone and am in prison, and I need bail money.'' Mr. Card, who thought that it was definitely his grandson's voice, thought that he had to do as much as possible, withdrew 3000 Canadian dollars (about 300,000 yen), which is the daily limit at the bank, and went to another branch. I went to try to withdraw my money. However, the branch manager who noticed Mr. Card's suspicious behavior blocked the action. Mr. Card seems to have realized that he was being deceived for the first time by explaining that 'there are cases where a phone call is made with a voice that is made.'

In the case of Benjamin Parkin's parents, who received a call saying ``I killed a diplomat in a traffic accident,'' he was asked for 21,000 Canadian dollars (about 2.1 million yen) as court costs, and several banks. It is said that he went around and prepared money and transferred it. It seems that the phone was a clone voice close to Mr. Parkin's voice so that his parents thought 'I talked to him'. Mr. Parkin has released a video on YouTube talking about his hobby snowmobiles, but it is unknown whether the cloned voice was created based on this video or the voice obtained elsewhere. , Although the damage report was submitted, the money has not been returned.

Spoofing scams such as the 'Oreore scam' are the second most common scams in the United States, with more than 36,000 reported cases in 2022. Of these, more than 5,100 were made by phone, resulting in damage of $ 11 million (about 1.49 billion yen).

Until a few years ago, a large amount of original audio data was required to create a cloned voice, but with the advancement of technology, if you get about 30 seconds of audio from YouTube, Facebook, or TikTok, you can create a cloned voice. can be generated.

For example, in the movie 'Star Wars' series, with the retirement of Mr. James Earl Jones, who has been in charge of the role of Darth Vader for over 40 years, AI is supposed to reproduce Mr. Jones' voice.

AI takes over Darth Vader's voice - GIGAZINE

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Juanky Pamies Alcubilla

On the other hand, there have been reports of abuse of the voice of Emma Watson, an actor known for her role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series.

The latest tool that generates clone voice with AI is abused by 4chan people such as `` Read out 'My struggle' in Emma Watson's voice' - GIGAZINE

Eva Velázquez of the Identity Theft Resource Center, a nonprofit that helps victims of crime, told The Washington Post that the police may not have the money or staff to send to a department dedicated to tracking fraud. has expressed his opinion.