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The episode discusses the rise of AI voice cloning scams and their emotional impact on victims.

Send us Fan Mail Your phone rings and it’s the voice you’d recognize anywhere. It sounds terrified, breathless, desperate and it asks for money right now. Then the call drops, your pulse spikes, and you’re one tap away from sending cash to a stranger. That moment is exactly what AI voice cloning scams are built to trigger, and it’s why deepfake voice fraud is becoming one of the most unsettling forms of cybercrime in 2026. We unpack how criminals pull this off with shockingly little audio, o...

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Host: Jim Kunkle

Topics covered

• AI voice cloning
• cybercrime
• deepfake technology
• scams
• emotional manipulation

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Organizations: AI, cybercrime

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