Garry Tan, chief executive of prominent tech-oriented venture capital firm Ycombinator, wrote on X late last week that there is a \u201cpretty elaborate\u201d phishing scam that uses an AI-generated voice.<\/p>\n
The scammers \u201c[claim] to be Google Support (caller ID matches, but is not verified),\u201d he\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0in an Oct. 10 post that he termed a \u201cpublic service announcement.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDO NOT CLICK YES ON THIS DIALOG\u2014You will be phished.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThey claim to be checking that you are alive and that they should disregard a death certificate filed that claims a family member is recovering your account. It\u2019s a pretty elaborate ploy to get you to allow password recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n IT consultant Sam Mitrovic, in a blog post last month,\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0of a similar scam attempt targeting Gmail accounts and also using an AI-generated voice.<\/p>\n \u201cThe scams are getting increasingly sophisticated, more convincing and are deployed at ever larger scale<\/strong>,\u201d Mitrovic wrote in the post. \u201cPeople are busy and this scam sounded and looked legitimate enough that I would give them an A for their effort. Many people are likely to fall for it.\u201d<\/p>\n