A criminal organisation that used Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to clone the voices of relatives in order to make telephone scams more convincing has been dismantled by the Directorate for Combating Organised Crime.
The gang is alleged to have defrauded citizens using various pretexts, posing among other things as employees of the Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator (HEDNO), mobile phone companies and fibre-optic service providers. They would then exploit voice-cloning technology to create the impression that a relative or other trusted person of the victim was on the line.
