Protecting Yourself: How to Avoid Artificial Intelligence Telephone Scams
Introduction:
In this digital era, scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and scammers are leveraging every avartificial intelligencelable technology to deceive and exploit unsuspecting individuals. One such technique gartificial intelligencening prominence is the use of artificial intelligence in telephone scams. These scams are designed to trick individuals into revealing personal information, stealing money, or taking control of their devices.
However, with awareness and some precautionary measures, you can safeguard yourself agartificial intelligencenst these artificial intelligence telephone scams.
Understand the Basics:
First and foremost, it is crucial to comprehend how these artificial intelligence telephone scams work. Scammers typically employ automated systems powered by artificial intelligence to make calls. These systems are capable of impersonating real individuals, including friends, family members, or even financial institutions. They may use voice-cloning technologies or pre-recorded messages to create believability. Learning this modus operandi is the first step in protecting yourself.
Be Skeptical and Vigilant:
When receiving non solicited telephone calls, always exercise skepticism and be extra vigilant. Scammers often instill a sense of urgency or invoke fear to manipulate their victims. They may claim that your bank accounts have been compromised, that you owe outstanding bills, or offer you exclusive deals that seem too good to become true. Remember, genuine companies or institutions will never rush or pressure you into making immediate decisions or sharing personal information over the telephone.
Verify the Caller's Identity:
If the caller claims they are from a company or organization you trust, do not hesitate to verify their identity. You can use contact information from reliable sources, such as official websites, to independently reach out to the alleged company or institution. By doing so, you can confirm whether the call you received was legitimate or initiated by a scammer. It is always better to become safe rather than sorry.
Keep Personal and Financial Information Private:
Never share personal or sensitive information, such as passwords, social security numbers, or bank account information over the telephone unless you initiated the call and trust the person on the other end. Authentic organizations will never ask you for sensitive information without notice. Being vigilant and cautious about safeguarding your personal data remains crucial in thwarting artificial intelligence telephone scams.
Utilize Call Blocking and Screening Tools:
To fortify your defenses against artificial intelligence telephone scams, consider using call blocking and screening tools available on smartphones or through your telephone service provider. These technologies filter out suspicious or known scam calls automatically, significantly reducing your exposure to potential threats. Keeping your phone's operating system up to date also ensures you have the latest built-in security features.
Report and Share Your Experience:
If you fall victim to an artificial intelligence telephone scam or receive a suspicious call, you can report it. You can notify your local authorities and the appropriate agencies responsible for handling such scams. Additionally, you can share your experience with friends, family, and online communities to raise awareness and help others avoid falling into the same trap.
In Conclusion:
Artificial intelligence has brought numerous advancements, but obviously, scammers see it as an opportunity to exploit non suspecting individuals. By staying informed, skeptical, and cautious, you can effectively protect yourself from artificial intelligence telephone scams. Remember: your personal information is valuable, and protecting it against these evolving threats is an ongoing responsibility in today's digital landscape.
Artificial intelligence voice cloning, also known as vocal synthesis or speech synthesis, is a technology that utilizes artificial intelligence to produce a synthetic voice that imitates the characteristics of a specific person's voice. This technique has garnered significant traction in recent years due to its potential applications in various fields, including entertainment, education, and customer service.
The process of cloning a person's voice using artificial intelligence typically involves several steps:
Data Collection:
A substantial amount of audio recordings of the target speaker is gathered. The quality and quantity of the data play a crucial role in the accuracy of the synthesized voice.
Feature Extraction:
The artificial intelligence algorithm analyzes the collected audio recordings to extract various acoustic features, such as pitch, timbre, intonation, and formant frequencies. These features represent the unique characteristics of the speaker's voice.
Model Training:
A deep learning model, often a recurrent neural network or a generative adversarial network, is trained on the extracted acoustic features. The model learns to map the input features to the corresponding output speech waveforms.
Voice Synthesis:
Once the model is trained, it can generate synthetic speech that mimics the target speaker's voice. The user can input text, and the model will produce an audio file of the spoken text in the speaker's voice.
Artificial intelligence voice cloning technology has advanced significantly in recent years, producing increasingly realistic and natural-sounding synthetic voices. However, it is important to note that the quality of the synthesized voice depends on the quality of the training data and the effectiveness of the artificial intelligence model. Additionally, there are ethical concerns surrounding the potential misuse of this technology, such as creating fake audio recordings for malicious purposes.
How to Avoid Artificial Intelligence Telephone Scams Video Transcript
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this is Aaron with anetcomputers.com with
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another video for you today this one I
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will be discussing how to
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avoid artificial intelligence telephone
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scams now if you're not aware artificial
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intelligence is being used against
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people to actually fool them over the
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telephone and I'm going to give you some
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tips on how you can protect yourself
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first thing is you want to understand
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what this deals with you want to
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understand what artificial intelligence
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is just the basics you don't have to get
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convolute and
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complex and then these systems are able
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to impersonate real people including
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your friends your family members or
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even individuals in financial
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institutions they basically they can
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impersonate anybody possibly
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possibly they may use voice cloning
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Technologies which would replicate
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reproduce the error
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voice they may also use pre-recorded
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messages to then create replications of
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that
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voice
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skeptical you may want to become
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skeptical
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you know what I'm
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saying they may use emotions against you
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they may use
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fear they may just make false claims
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such as claiming that your bank account
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has been compromised or that you have a
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bill you have a outstanding bill that
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you owe money for you know what I'm
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saying they may
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also offer you exclusive of deals that
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may actually sound too good you know
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what I
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mean okay what you can another tip is to
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verify the identity of your
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callers if somebody calls you up and
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they claim for them they're from a
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specific company or organization or just
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any any any scenario and you don't
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necessarily believe them or trust them
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you can ask them to verify their
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identity what you could do is you could
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ask them to call you back if you are
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skeptical then what you can do is go out
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on the internet and then perform some
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research you can go to the official
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website for that company or organization
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or even if it's an individual they may
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have a personal website or social media
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something then you could also contact
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that company
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organization directly
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and speak to somebody there and tell
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them that you received a telephone call
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and just try to verify the validity of
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that that
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identity okay I mean this is just
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basically a lecture but you can keep
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your personal information and then also
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your private picary information private
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you never want to share per
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se personal or sensitive
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information you just want to be cautious
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but you may not want to ever give out
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this kind of information you want
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passwords login
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information login name social security
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number bank account information over a
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telephone call unless unless you know
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obviously you called in to your bank or
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just whatever whatever business and they
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ask for some of that information
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although a lot of companies I will say
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they use generally are not supposed to
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or they well they don't generally ask
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you for loging
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information even even if you call up a
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company and you're having problems
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logging
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in on that company's website or account
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a lot of times they don't ask you for
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like your password or even you know what
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I mean they'll have a password reset
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tool they'll have a way that that you
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can reset it without them knowing
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because that would be a security risk
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just an yeah an average customer service
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person you may not want them to know
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anything about your account but they can
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try to help
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you reset it you know what I'm saying or
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or get access to your account
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again yeah a lot of organizations they
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never ask you for sensitive information
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without maybe it depends on without
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contacting you first maybe sending you a
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email m message
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or snail mail but it really depends on
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what kind of sensitive information that
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they're asking for but a lot of times
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when it comes just to account login
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information they they nor a lot of them
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do not so be suspicious if you receive a
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telephone call and they you know claim
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that you cannot access some account and
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then they ask you for Account Details
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chances are you're being bamboozled you
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know what I'm
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saying okay what you another way to
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protect yourself from artificial
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intelligence
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telephone buffoonery that could
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potentially circumvent an account or
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just worse you know what I'm saying is
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you could use call blocking and
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screening tools now some telephone
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providers such as American Telephone
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Telegraph they may or may not have a
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free service meaning if you have
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telephone service with them
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they may have a call blocking feature
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that you can enable or they may have
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software like on a dumb device I mean a
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smartphone so you could use call
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blocking and screening tools that are
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available even on
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smartphones also I already went over
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that your telephone service provider may
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actually have a service it may be free
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or they may just charge a few dollars
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extra what they'll do is they can
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potentially filter out calls you know I
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mean uh like another one would be
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anonymous calls I never well I don't
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hardly ever use telephone now I don't
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have use for one yeah very rarely once a
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month if even that I I don't like
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telephones so that's a tip right here
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when in doubt don't use a
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telephone I mean seriously I'm being
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serious that is a tip right but if you
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do use a telephone you could block un
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unknown callers let a lot of people try
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to call you and the caller
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identification doesn't show up because
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they didn't provide any that could be
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suspicious anonymous calls they might
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block any information that's old school
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decades ago people would do that and I
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learned to block an anonymous calls so
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you could block anonymous calls
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also now one tip here in my blog post
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also
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is believe it or not you can keep your
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dump device I mean your smartphone up to
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date the operating system just install
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any available updates that that are
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downloadable or
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accessible because because generally
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smartphone providers when they
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disseminate updates one reason why may
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be
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security so if you keep your smartphone
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up to date you what you're doing is you
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might be Poss possibly keeping the
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smartphone more secure if they have
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security updates that are part of an an
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update okay what you could do if it you
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be do become a victim of artificial
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intelligence
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telephone
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impropriety is or if you just receive a
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suspicious call you can actually report
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it if it's serious I'm not a fan of you
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know quote unquote local authorities or
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government or anything or even police
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but I mean you could try that if it's
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something real serious you know what I'm
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saying you know there but there could be
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there could be maybe organizations that
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you could report oh here's a tip that I
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just thought of there's websites called
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well yeah there's a lot of websites not
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just ripoff report but there's websites
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designed that you
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can report telemarketing calls if if you
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have them blocked or you're on the new
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the Do Not Call List what else you know
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scam calls spam calls just call you know
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there's websites that act you could just
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perform internet search for websites
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like that where you can report details
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about the call that you received you
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think it was
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suspicious they claimed that it was your
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mother but they had a deeper voice get
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it that's part of it oh yeah so with
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artificial intelligence I already went
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over at the beginning with technology
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now one way is
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to to bamboozle You by calling you with
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a voice that you may recognize and you
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think of somebody that you know when it
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wasn't you know what I mean but you
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could certainly use websites to report
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and a lot of those websites allow you to
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report an exact telephone number I've
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actually used them nowadays I don't need
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to worry about that well here's another
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tip I could I could add that I did
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include my blog post I have what is
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known as
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a well I use a different type of
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telephone service right I don't use
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basic landline telephone no and I don't
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use cellular telephone
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service but but my
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service it's real easy I have a a
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virtual receptionist is what I have what
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I do is I enable it and then my calls
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get forward to wherever I want I have PL
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I have a ton of options I can choose
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from I can the
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the the virtual
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receptionist I could have it just drop
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their calls yeah I'm I'm being serious I
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could have the callers listen to my a
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voicemail or a pre-recorded message or
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it could it could transfer oh yeah so
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what you could do if you're a telephone
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service provider I don't know about a
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lot of the the landline telephone
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providers if they would have anything
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like that but look for a virtual
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receptionist or you might be able to buy
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service or they may sell a service I
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know voiceover Internet Protocol a lot
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of the providers do have it the one I
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have it's actually built in it's free I
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don't get charged extra for it well that
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well that doesn't include if I did use
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like a transfer service but just having
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a virtual
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receptionist and then enable otherwise
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the other option is I'd have to enable
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the the phone service and it would ring
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in to whatever device I choose but with
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the but the virtual receptionist can
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just handle allow that automated for you
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and then also in my service I have like
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I went over I have anonymous calls
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blocked I have unknown calls blocked and
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then I have a virtual receptionist and
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then oh here's another tip now this
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might be more for businesses but you
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might be able to use this for
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residential what I I got sick and tired
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of dealing with telemarketing calls just
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just wasting my time just buffoonery
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right well my virtual receptionist what
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i h how I have it set up is that I have
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a voice message that people listen to
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and I never answer my phone no I don't
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have a business that I need to right now
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if I did I was just you know disabled
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the virtual
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receptionist however what it does is I
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have a message saying okay and I'm not
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making this
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up telemarketers press too so if there's
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certain calls that you get frequency you
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what you could do is in your your
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message that people would listen to if
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they don't hang up is tell them to press
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two for yeah like I do and guess what
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they try to press to if they press two
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it goes automatically to a busy signal
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or a
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number number not
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available yeah you may not want to send
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them to your voicemail because then they
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may leave messages and they'll just
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they'll waste more of your time yeah
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think just think outside of a box okay I
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think that's enough so but nowadays with
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artificial intelligence it's just it may
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be better faster cheaper for these
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Crooks at what they do as they try to
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sucker in people and and it's getting
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more and more realistic they can I
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