US Secret Service issues holiday warning on new techniques used by cyber criminals

Sophisticated voice cloning systems are being used by cybercriminals to manipulate unsuspecting people into transferring vast sums of money into untraceable cryptocurrency, the ABC7 I-Team has learned.

U.S. Secret Service Assistant to the Special Agent In Charge, Joe Kefer, runs the cyber fraud squad in the Chicago Field Office. He says criminals are increasingly using the internet to manipulate and steal a torrent of cash from the unsuspecting, increasingly by pretending to be someone they know to manipulate a target.

https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-secret-service-issues-holiday-warning-insidious-new-techniques-cyber-criminals-are-using-defraud-chicago-area-victims/18187376/

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