Nearly Half of Indians Expertise AI-Enabled Faux Voice Scams: McAfee Survey

About half of Indians surveyed mentioned that they’re unable to distinguish between the actual and cloned voice of an individual whereas 83 p.c of the victims of voice scams have confronted the lack of cash, on-line safety agency McAfee mentioned in a report.

The survey of seven,054 individuals was performed in seven nations, together with 1,010 respondents from India, round synthetic intelligence-enabled voice scams by imposters.

The report suggests utilizing a verbal codeword amongst members of the family and trusted shut buddies as one of many protecting measures from voice scams.

“About half (47 p.c) of Indian adults have skilled or know somebody who has skilled some form of AI voice rip-off, which is nearly double the worldwide common (25 p.c). 83 p.c of Indian victims mentioned that they had a lack of cash — with 48 p.c shedding over Rs. 50,000,” the report mentioned.

McAfee performed a survey on how synthetic intelligence (AI) know-how is fueling an increase in on-line voice scams, with simply three seconds of audio required to clone an individual’s voice.

“The survey reveals that greater than half (69 p.c) of Indians suppose they do not know or can not inform the distinction between an AI voice and actual voice,” the report mentioned.

The survey discovered 66 p.c of the Indian respondents mentioned they’d reply to a voicemail or voice word purporting to be from a good friend or beloved one in want of cash.

“Significantly in the event that they thought the request had come from their mum or dad (46 p.c), associate or partner (34 p.c), or baby (12 p.c). Messages more than likely to elicit a response had been these claiming that the sender had been robbed (70 p.c), was concerned in a automobile incident (69 p.c), misplaced their cellphone or pockets (65 p.c) or wanted assist whereas travelling overseas (62 p.c),” the report mentioned. The survey additionally discovered that the rise of deep fakes and disinformation has led to individuals being warier of what they see on-line, with 27 p.c of Indian adults saying they’re now much less trusting of social media than ever earlier than and 43 p.c caring over the rise of misinformation or disinformation.

“Synthetic Intelligence brings unbelievable alternatives, however with any know-how, there may be at all times the potential for it for use maliciously within the unsuitable fingers. That is what we’re seeing right this moment with the entry and ease of use of AI instruments serving to cybercriminals to scale their efforts in more and more convincing methods,” McAfee CTO Steve Grobman mentioned.