So a video call comes in from your boss. Face checks out, voice checks out, they’re asking you to move money to a new account before end of day. You just do it.<\/p>\n
Except here’s the thing, your boss never actually called you.<\/p>\n
That’s the genuinely nasty part about these scams. The fake’s good enough that all your normal instincts just quietly switch off. And since there’s almost always a bit of pressure baked into the request, you don’t exactly sit there questioning it either.<\/p>\n
Deepfakes use AI to basically clone someone’s face, voice, or both. Scammer pulls together whatever’s already floating around online about this person, then uses that during a call or drops it into a video.<\/p>\n
The tech’s honestly not even the main trick here. It works because the whole thing just feels familiar. Your manager’s got a certain voice, your relative’s got a certain face, and seeing those familiar details makes the request feel legit before you’ve actually verified a single thing.<\/p>\n
A familiar face on a call feels comforting right up until the actual ask gets weird. A voice message that sounds almost dead on, though if you’re really listening, tiny tone or timing glitches sometimes slip through. And pressure’s just part of the package, that’s exactly where people skip their usual common sense checks.<\/p>\n
Don’t get fixated on whether the face itself looks real or not. Look at what’s actually being asked. A sudden change in payment details is worth pausing on, especially if they’re also pushing you to keep this all quiet somehow.<\/p>\n
And whatever you do, don’t verify the call using the same call. Your “boss” tells you to just confirm the transfer by replying on that same number, you’ve genuinely gained nothing there, that’s the whole trap.<\/p>\n
Call the person on their actual normal number, not whatever just contacted you, since using that number defeats the entire point of verifying anything. For anything workplace related, stick to the existing approval process no matter who’s telling you to skip it, even if it’s someone senior leaning on you.<\/p>\n
And if the voice or video just feels a little off somehow, trust that gut feeling enough to pause, you don’t need hard proof it’s fake before you go check.<\/p>\n
And honestly, if someone gets annoyed because you wanted to verify a large transfer first, just let them be annoyed for five minutes. Way better than the alternative.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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