Every year, billions of dollars in cryptocurrency vanish — not usually through broken cryptography, but through deceived people.
Author: Ryota Matsumoto
It begins with a wrong-number text, a friendly chat, a gradual romance or mentorship — and ends, weeks or months later, with a life savings poured
The call sounds exactly like your child: frightened, in trouble, needing money wired now. It is not your child. Voice-cloning fraud — built from
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Scammers can now clone a loved one’s voice in seconds. The simple defences — code words, call-backs and the pause — that protect your family.
Fraud has industrialised — call centres, scripts, AI voice clones — and now steals over a trillion dollars a year globally. The counter-industry is.
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