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Scammers use AI to clone Florida sheriff’s captain’s voice in fake arrest warrant calls
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jasoman lemmy.world jasoman@lemmy.world
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Yeah, do they actually call tho? The either show up or get you when you come in. That or a traffic stop.

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rockSlayer lemmy.blahaj.zone rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-02-24
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Yeah, do they actually call tho? The either show up or get you when you come in. That or a traffic stop.

Yea, everyone knows cops reach you by breaking down your door and contacting you from across the room with their handgun

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Zen_Shinobi lemmy.world Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-08-11
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Yeah, do they actually call tho? The either show up or get you when you come in. That or a traffic stop.

I used to work at a sheriff's office. It would be monthly that I would get a call from someone (mostly older or really young callers) scared that they had a warrant for their arrest. I would have to explain it was a scam and we don't call to let people know they have a warrant.

Bless their hearts, they would tell me the caller ID phone number and whatever "agent" name and "department" they called from. I just pretended to copy all the information down to do an investigation...and no, I didn't check to see if the callers had real warrants either lol.

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Otter lemmy.ca otter@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-05
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I agree this is terrible, and I encourage people to talk to their older / non technical friends and family

At the same time, that seems like a lot of work on the part of the scammers when the average person wouldn't know what their local sheriff sounds like. Osceola doesn't seem like a small town.

The grandparents scam (cloning the voice of a grandchild) is a lot more concerning IMO

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Hegar fedia.io Hegar@fedia.io
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#6 · Quote Reply

"I am the administrator, my voice is my password, verify me"

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Dadifer lemmy.world Dadifer@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-04
#7 · Quote Reply

"I am the administrator, my voice is my password, verify me"

Oh shit! I used to love that game!!

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KC_Royalz lemmy.world KC_Royalz@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-04-02
#8 · (edited) Quote Reply

I used to work at a sheriff's office. It would be monthly that I would get a call from someone (mostly older or really young callers) scared that they had a warrant for their arrest. I would have to explain it was a scam and we don't call to let people know they have a warrant. Bless their hearts, they would tell me the caller ID phone number and whatever "agent" name and "department" they call...

See here's where I find it bullshit. There has to be someway for the cops to track that shit down. Pretending to copy? Wtf! Do your job. Instead of bragging about not doing it. Fk you

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Hegar fedia.io Hegar@fedia.io
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Oh shit! I used to love that game!!

Uplink. I played the mac version released by the legendary Ambrosia Software.

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Pieisawesome lemmy.dbzer0.com Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-02-07
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See here's where I find it bullshit. There has to be someway for the cops to track that shit down. Pretending to copy? Wtf! Do your job. Instead of bragging about not doing it. Fk you

ACAB at its finest.

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Zen_Shinobi lemmy.world Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-08-11
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See here's where I find it bullshit. There has to be someway for the cops to track that shit down. Pretending to copy? Wtf! Do your job. Instead of bragging about not doing it. Fk you

So tell me how am I going to track down scammers with VOIP and fake numbers? Do you think the tax payers will fund hundreds of thousands of dollars to fly to third world countriee to arrest their citizens? Do you even think other countries even give a shit about our warrants from some podunk rural county?

And no local or county agency has the manpower, technology, or ability to track those scammers. You have no clue even the slightest about these scams.

Most of the scam companies run their calls through a VPN or VPS wih constant number changes and VOIP, sometimes stolen numbers. It's incredibly hard to trace it just through the phone. Even if you do, the scammer's country isn't going to do jack shit about it.

I just find it bullshit people who tell public servants how to do their job when they have no clue about any of it. eDgEy

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ParlimentOfDoom piefed.zip ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip
Joined: 2025-09-26
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Uplink. I played the mac version released by the legendary Ambrosia Software.

They swiped that line from the movie Sneakers

Dr. Werner Brandes: Hi, my name is Werner Brandes. My voice is my passport. Verify Me
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SleeplessCityLights programming.dev SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev
Joined: 2025-10-03
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Yeah, do they actually call tho? The either show up or get you when you come in. That or a traffic stop.

The only person that would ever call would be your criminal defense attorney that you already have on retainer. Very few people would stick around and have LE surprise them.

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AlligatorBlizzard sh.itjust.works AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-13
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I agree this is terrible, and I encourage people to talk to their older / non technical friends and family At the same time, that seems like a lot of work on the part of the scammers when the average person wouldn't know what their local sheriff sounds like. Osceola doesn't seem like a small town. The grandparents scam (cloning the voice of a grandchild) is a lot more concerning IMO

Osceola county is huge, parts of Disney are in Osceola county, it's basically a suburb of Orlando.

And I'm fairly certain that I've been in the sheriff's office in the thumbnail pic but at no point in time could I have told you what the local sheriff sounded like.

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