As phone scams become more sophisticated, it is increasingly difficult for people to distinguish between what is real and what is fake. A TikTok video recently uploaded by Brooke Bush (@babybushwhacked) is an example of the lengths to which scammers will go to con innocent people, with heartbreaking results.
Bush explained that a phone scammer used artificial intelligence (AI) technology to imitate her brother’s voice, tricking her grandfather into thinking her brother had been in a car accident. The caller used the AI machine to mimic her brother’s voice and then called her grandfather, pretending to be her brother. They said that they were about to get into a car accident before the call cut out, leaving her grandfather horrified and confused. He then called Bush in a panic, who immediately thought the worst and began frantically searching for her brother.
