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Oddly enough 60 minutes did a piece last night on the Grandparents Scam. Your grandson or daughter calls and says they're in some kind of trouble, they can't tell the parents but they need x amount of dollars right away so this attorney a friend recommended can keep them out of jail. They then put the attorney on and he arranges to have a courier come by and pick up the cash. The attorney also tells you to tell the bank you're withdrawing the cash for a car repair, so the bank won't think you've fallen victim to a scam. The particular scam on which they reported originated in the Bahamas. So how did they know who the grandchild was, how to mimic their voice exactly and who the grandparents are and which phone numbers to call? To demonstrate how effective it is, the expert explaining it all told the corresondent they's set her assistant up. In a matter of minutes she used AI to call the assistant and with an AI generated voice mimicking her boss told the assistant she was in a hurry and needed her passport number. The assistant looked it up and rattled it right off to the bot.