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Scammers using AI to target Medicare subscribers (www.consumeraffairs.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Showroom7561@lemmy.ca to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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Ok, apparently this is an older scam (article is from 2023), but I've been getting these calls non-stop for the last few weeks.

Funny enough, I'm in Canada, so Medicare makes no sense... dumbass scammers don't even know what the hell they're doing.

Anyway, when you pick up, it sounds like a person on the other end. When I asked to speak to a human being, it said "oh, I'm sorry, my mic must be acting up"... pretending to act like a person.

As I pressed on, it basically answered in a way that would mimic a human being, and I'm sure some people might fall for it long enough to give up important information.

As AI is used more and more with scams, it's going to get really difficult to do business with actual companies.

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[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

This is why when I moved I kept my old phone number with the old area code. Since I know only a handful of people still in that area code and have them in my phone, when I get a call with that area code I immediately know it's a scammer trying to make it look like a local call. The fact that caller id can still be spoofed at this day and age is absolutely mindblowing to my little brain. I remember in the 80's when caller id came out, and here we sit with a 40+ year old bug in the system....