LONDON: Recordings of your voice posted online could be used to commit fraud against family and friends, a bank has warned.
Voice cloning schemes (in which fraudsters can copy a person’s voice from uploaded videos) can be used to trick people, Starling Bank said.
A survey conducted by the bank found that almost half of the population (46 percent) were unaware of this type of forgery.
The bank said that artificial intelligence (AI) allows criminals to create voice clones from a few seconds of a person’s audio through noise cloning. This voice sample can be easily obtained from social media.
Fraudsters can then identify the person’s family members and use that fake voice to demand money immediately.
Eight percent of people in the survey said they would give whatever money was asked of them, despite the thought that the call they received would feel strange to them.
The survey found that 28 percent of people believe they have been targeted by an AI voice cloning scheme in the past year.