When You Can’t Trust What You Hear

A mother in a grocery store aisle freezes with her phone to her ear, shocked, her shopping cart half full beside her; shelves of cereal and cans with no readable labels.

Your phone rings. The voice on the line is your daughter. She is crying. She has been in an accident. She needs money right now. Except it is not your daughter. It is a recording built from audio clips taken from her social media. Three seconds of her voice was enough.

In 2025, the FBI recorded over 22,000 AI-related fraud complaints with losses of $893 million.[1] McAfee's 2023 survey found that one in ten people surveyed had been personally targeted by an AI voice scam.[2] In this module you will learn how these scams work, why they are so convincing, and the one habit that breaks them every time.