Phone AI is everywhere now
It's getting good enough to fool people, and most of us never learned what to watch for. The more you understand it, the harder it is for anyone to use it against you. That's what I'm here for.
I build this stuff for real companies.
So when I tell you how it works, I'm not guessing.
Where to start
Pick one. I'll tell you what's actually going on, and the one thing to do about it.
The voices got good fast. There are still a couple of ways to tell, and one old trick that stopped working.
How to tell →It sounds exactly like someone you love, scared, needing money right now. Here's how they pull it off, and how to shut it down.
Shut it down →Ten minutes at Sunday dinner does most of the work. I'll give you the exact thing to say.
What to say →A few words get most of these systems to hand you to a person. You can stop mashing zero.
The words →Depends where you live. Here's what they actually owe you, without the legal mush.
Your rights →What "this call may be recorded" covers now, and the one question worth asking first.
What to ask →The short version
You don't need to be a tech person for this. If you hear these three things, slow down.
When there's a new scam going around, or a change that actually affects you, I write it up in plain English and tell you what to do about it. That's the whole thing.
Companies pay me to put AI on their phone lines. I'm not a reporter covering this from the outside. I'm in the room building it, which is the only reason I can give you the straight version of how it works.
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