When your voice is no longer proof

AI voice cloning is turning familiar voices into a dangerous new weapon for everyday fraud

The phone call sounded completely genuine. The caller sounded exactly like Ajoy, an acquaintance of a 67-year-old man in Kolkata.

There was an emergency, he was told. A relative had been admitted to a private hospital and urgently needed money.

The man believed the familiar voice. Within less than an hour, he transferred Rs 95,990.