Hackers may have found a new tactic to deceive Gmail users through a “super-realistic AI scam call.” Far from being “the typical scam,” this new scam campaign poses a threat even to the most experienced users.
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Subscribe (it's FREE) ►Sam Mitrovic, a consultant at Microsoft, shared in a blog post how he was the victim of a scam attempt using this new tactic. It all started with a notification to approve the recovery of his Gmail account, a classic phishing technique designed to lead users to fake portals where hackers can steal their credentials. Although Mitrovic declined the request, about 40 minutes later he received a missed call supposedly from Google Sydney.
The scam continued a week later with another account recovery request, and this time Mitrovic decided to answer the call he received shortly after. On the phone, a supposed American man, claiming to work for Google’s support service, warned him about suspicious activity on his account and that an attacker had downloaded his data. This raised alarms for Mitrovic, who quickly searched Google for the phone number of the call. Although the number seemed legitimate, he decided to remain skeptical and asked to be sent an email.
When the message arrived in his inbox, everything seemed correct, except for one small detail: an email address in the “to” field that did not belong to Google. The scam became more evident when the interlocutor repeated a “Hello” that sounded suspiciously perfect. “At that moment I realized that it was an AI voice,” Mitrovic recounted, upon noticing the scam.
“Scams are becoming more sophisticated, more convincing, and are deployed on a larger scale,” stated Mitrovic. For this reason, the consultant emphasizes the importance of staying alert and conducting basic checks on any communication received by the user.
