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想想每天,当孩子们在餐桌以外的任何地方时,父母都在焦虑,他们都害怕有坏消息,况且,有时坏消息比好消息更具有可信度。坏消息的开头一般是一个19岁的孩子发短信称:“我手机坏了”,这时,骗子只要凑过来就可以了。
Still, the story wasn't watertight and we
all called him stupid for ages afterwards, for failing to ask basic questions
such as:" But if it's your phone that's broken, why does the money need to
go into someone else's bank account?"
不过,这个故事也不完全可信,之后很长时间我们都说他愚蠢,因为他没有问一些基本的问题,比如:“如果是你的手机坏了,为什么钱要转入别人的银行账户?”
He didn't even call the number to check
that he could speak to her – arguably, ?100 lighter was a good place to land. If
ever anyone tries to relieve him of his life savings, he'll be concentrating.
父母甚至没有打这个号码来确认他是否可以和她说话——可以说,100英镑对他们而言可能微不足道。如果有人想抢走他的毕生积蓄,他会认真起来的。
But imagine if you could hear your kid,
sounding exactly like themselves, asking for money? Whose defences would be
strong enough to survive voice cloning?
但想象一下,如果你听到孩子在问自己要钱,谁有十足的把握能够不上当?
The guys from Stop Scams UK tried to
explain this to me last year: a scammer could pull a kid's voice off their
TikTok account; all they would have to do then is find the parent's phone
number.