AI Voice Cloning Scams and How to Protect Yourself Quiz

Answers and explanations appear as you take the quiz.

1. Where do scammers often get the audio needed to clone a voice?
   • Only from stolen phones
   • From social media videos, voicemail greetings and other public recordings
   • From the victim's bank
   • They do not need any audio at all
2. What is the most reliable response to an urgent call from a relative asking for money?
   • Send a small amount first to test it
   • Keep them talking to listen for glitches
   • Pay quickly to avoid harm
   • Hang up and call the person back on a number you already know
3. What is a family safe word used for?
   • Verifying that a caller claiming to be a relative is really them
   • Unlocking a phone
   • Logging into a bank account
   • Blocking robocalls automatically
4. Why is a familiar caller ID number not proof the call is genuine?
   • Phone numbers change every day
   • Caller ID only shows area codes
   • Caller ID spoofing can make a call appear to come from a known number
   • Cloned voices always come from unknown numbers
5. What does the 2024 Arup case in Hong Kong show?
   • Scams only target the elderly
   • The tactic has extended to deepfaked video calls with fake colleagues
   • Voice cloning cannot fool businesses
   • Banks refund all scam losses
6. Why do scammers keep calls short, noisy or emotional?
   • To save on phone bills
   • Because cloning tools only work for ten seconds
   • To comply with telecom rules
   • To hide flaws in the cloned voice and pressure the victim
7. Which payment requests are strong warning signs?
   • Gift cards, cryptocurrency or a courier collecting cash
   • A check mailed to a known address
   • Paying a bill through your bank's usual portal
   • A receipt from a store you visited
8. Where can US victims report a voice cloning scam?
   • Only to the phone manufacturer
   • To the FTC at ReportFraud.ftc.gov and the FBI's IC3 at ic3.gov
   • To any social media platform
   • Reporting is not possible