Robocalls May Pretend To Be Your Mom In The Future. Be Careful!

Saanvi Araav - Apr 13, 2019

In the future, scammers are likely to make use of voice-mimicking artificial intelligence (AI) to pretend to be your relatives or friends via pre-recorded messages.

We are seeing more and more complicated robocalls these days. From recent research, we know that one-third of all the calls are now made by automated dialling machines. They are programmed to play pre-recorded messages if you answer their call.

Scammers will make use of voice-mimicking AIs to pretend to be your relatives or friends.

Until now, many experts have expected that these robocalls will be designed based on higher technologies and therefore, they will make more disturbance. In the future, scammers are likely to make use of voice-mimicking artificial intelligence (AI) to pretend to be your relatives or friends via pre-recorded messages. That's why many are worried about the frightening future of robocalls.

According to a story published on April 06, in an interview with CNN, academic Tarun Wadhwa said that scammers would leverage data online to determine our relatives as well as friends and then, make robocall messages based on their voices.

It’s going to be like Photoshop.

Wadhwa stated:

He also further said that he could:

However, that apparently happens in the future, but not now. Known as the CEO of YouMailIf - an application that is developed to prevent robocalls, Alex Quilici expressed his opinions about this issue.

He said to CNN: