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Salt Lake City Police use the chief’s voice to warn of scams

Salt Lake City, Utah – Residents of the Greater Salt Lake area are being impacted by an artificial intelligence scam, according to a warning from Salt Lake City Police.
They claim that in an effort to defraud people out of several thousand dollars, an email posing as Chief Mike Brown was sent to people using a phony SLCPD account that included audio and video.
The video component of the message contained footage from an interview with Chief Brown conducted by ABC4 a number of years prior, according to Salt Lake City Police.
The recipient was notified on the audio that a wire transfer to an LLC was denied due to a missing reference number. According to SLCPD, the message persisted in asserting that the addressee still owed the federal government close to $100,000.
Police claim that although the tape closely resembles Brown’s voice, it is not Brown. They pointed up a number of discrepancies in the AI reproduction.
According to investigators, the AI-generated email originated from a Google account and included the name of the Salt Lake City Investigators Department. Then came a phone number.
Official emails from the Salt Lake City Police are sent from the email domain ‘slc.gov,’ and the police want the public to be aware of this.
According to Salt Lake City Police, warning indications of possible voice-cloning frauds include:
• The contact you received is unexpected or unsolicited.
• You feel pressured to act quickly.
• The caller or message urgently requests money via wire transfer, gift card, payment app, or cryptocurrency, making it difficult to recover funds.
• They ask for personal or private information.
• You’re told to keep the request a secret.
Additionally, they advise asking targeted questions, confirming the call, pausing to reflect, and limiting social media posting as proactive measures to safeguard yourself.
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