Digital Safety
What is a voice-clone scam, and how does it work?
Readvora · 5 min read
Voice-cloning tools can produce speech that sounds like a specific person from a short recording. Scammers use this to make urgent calls that appear to come from someone you love.
These calls usually rely on pressure: an emergency, a request for money, and an instruction not to tell anyone. The goal is to stop you from pausing to check.
The most useful protection is simple and low-tech: agree a private way to verify each other before an emergency ever happens, and always hang up and call back on a number you already know.