June 24, 2026 at – 17:44
Journalist Roque González Vera warned about how he was scammed after an alleged “conversation” with his daughter, however, such contact never really existed. According to the communicator, artificial intelligence (AI) was used to replicate her voice, since she is also a journalist.
The journalist and firefighter Roque González Vera was a victim of a scam in which strangers apparently used artificial intelligence to impersonate his daughter, who is also a communicator.
According to the affected person, he received a phone call in which he heard his daughter’s voice asking him for money to make a purchase and although he was alert about this type of deception, He fully recognized her voice.
He even highlighted that he had two brief conversations with the “alleged” daughter, who claimed to have a bad signal, so after a communication was cut off she returned the call.
At the moment, the journalist’s main suspicion is that the criminals obtained records of his daughter’s voice through radio or television programs and used that information for deception.
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Money transfer
After the calls, the deception continued through WhatsApp, where the scammers used the young woman’s profile photo and they pretended to be her to send bank account details.
Given the supposed urgency, González, after a bank loan, transferred almost G. 5,000,000while he also maintained that he did not suspect the unknown number from which he received the call because his daughter was during her work hours and he considered that it could be a corporate number.
“You really think you are talking to a person, but it’s actually a computer“He lamented. He even warned that in a period of 48 hours, other relatives of his also received similar requests posing as relatives and always with the same objective: request money.
For his part, the head of the Specialized Department for Cybercrime Investigation of the National Police He explained that there are still reports of this type of video scams, but in these cases the voices are not similar, Therefore, he did not rule out a verification of the case to determine the use of AI.
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