If you answer a phone call from an unknown number, let the caller speak first. Whoever is on the other end of the line could be recording snippets of your voice — and later using it to impersonate you in a very convincing manner. consumers to beware of scam artists who are secretly recording people's voices in order to later pose as them and ask victims' relatives for money.
He's not surprised such scams are proliferating."This is part of a continuum. We started with the spam calls, then email phishing scams, then text message phishing scams. So this is the natural evolution of these scams," Farid said.What this means in practice, according to the FTC, is that you can no longer trust voices that sound identical to those of your friends and family members.
Farid said he no longer answers his phone unless he's expecting a call. And when he receives calls from supposed family members, like his wife, that seem"off," he asks her for a code word that they've agreed upon.
Now I’m a cyber expert
Please drop the ubiquitous 'expert' from new stories. Undefined, it adds NOTHING useful to any narrative. Avoid 'buzzwords.'
Anymore? I haven't answered calls from numbers I don't know since I had a Nokia.
What? People answer calls that they don’t know who it is? That’s so 2010….
There is a setting that blocks callers that are not on your contact list.