[daemin]

This scam has existed for decades, just hasn't used "AI" before to fake the voice. My grandma was often a target of scammers calling up and pretending to be her daughters or grandsons and wanting to get money out of her. She was luckily mentally quick enough to realise what was happening and hang up.

[zaphirplane]

This sounds targeted, like 2 degrees of separation

[daemin]

It's just opportunistic people calling old people over the phone in hopes of tricking them into handing over some money for "an emergency" by claiming they're a relative. Really low effort scams, I'm not surprised they're using generative AIs to fake voices now, same sort of low-effort operation.