Your ears are no longer evidence. Learn the patterns behind voice-clone and video-call scams — before one calls your family.
AI can now clone a voice from a few seconds of audio and fake a video call in real time. The scams below are not science fiction — every one is a documented pattern. Learn the shape of them, then test yourself.
Agree one secret word (or question-and-answer) with your close family, in person. Any "emergency" call that can't produce it is treated as fake — full stop. Rules: never write it in a chat an attacker could read, never use a pet's name or anything posted online, and refresh it yearly. Use the record form below to save your family's plan (who knows it, when you agreed it, when to review) — it lives only on this device.
Six situations. For each: is it a scam pattern or legitimate? Explanations cite the real-world pattern behind the story.
Scenario results, and your family's code-word plan — who knows it, when you agreed it, when to review it. Stored only on this device. Records are saved under your local account (or guest space) on this device — create, view, edit and delete them any time.