A woman in Florida was swindled into handing over thousands of dollars in retirement savings by a phone scammer who used artificial intelligence to clone her daughter’s voice and pretend she was in trouble.
Sharon Brightwell said she got a call last Wednesday that sounded exactly like her adult daughter, April Monroe, sobbing and panicking on the other end of the line and telling her that she had hit a heavily pregnant woman while texting and driving.
The phone number didn’t match Monroe’s, and the voice claimed that the police had taken her personal cellphone after the accident. But the AI-generated sound was so similar to her daughter’s voice — even her sobs — that Brightwell was completely convinced the call was real.
Sharon Brightwell was scammed after someone pretended to be her daughter over the phone. WFLA
“There is nobody that could convince me that it wasn’t