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Close-up photograph of a professional recording studio mixing desk at night, hundreds of illuminated…
★ Featured · Ai Voice · 5 min read

AI Voice Cloning Scams: A Sound Designer's Guide to the Call You Shouldn't Trust

The first time a cloned voice fooled me, I was sitting at my own mixing desk. A friend sent me eight seconds of a synthetic version of me as a joke — scraped from a podcast I'd done — saying a…

By Theo Brandt · July 2026
Ai Fraud A tense, cinematic photograph of a small-business accounts payable employee at her desk in…
Ai Fraud · 5 min

AI Fraud Prevention for Small Businesses: The Voice on the Phone Is Not Proof

It is 4:40 on a Friday. Your accounts payable person picks up, and it is the owner — same cadence, same slightly clipped way he says her name, same background hum of a car.

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