Given how easy it is becoming to clone someone's voice from a few samples, I think it's probably time for every family to agree on a password -- this way, if a "family member" calls asking for money for an urgent situation, you can ask them for the password first.

Crazy how this 1991 scene showed the use of voice cloning to deceive someone over the phone, and now it's a real thing. At least we don't have shape-shifting robots... yet.

A recent example, with a harrowing quote: "I know my daughter's cry."

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/07/car-crash-victim-calls-mother-for-help-and-15k-bail-money-but-its-an-ai-voice-scammer