FamWord

Voice cloning is now cheap and public — and it's not just a senior-safety issue. A few seconds of audio from a voicemail, a Facebook video, or a podcast is enough for AI to produce a call that sounds exactly like your loved one. Scammers still target grandparents the most, but the same trick works on anyone whose voice is online: your 40-year-old son, your CEO, your babysitter. The caller doesn't care who picks up, only who wires the money. Three things that actually stop these calls: 1. Agree on a family code word — but make it a ROTATING one. A static word can be overheard or learned. Ours changes every 30 seconds, so a clone can't keep up with words that didn't exist a minute ago. 2. Hang up and call back on a number you already have saved. Never the number the caller gives you. In most cases the real person answers and has no idea what you're talking about. 3. Slow down. Every cloned-voice scam runs on urgency — police, hospital, bail NOW. Urgency is the tell. After my mom got one of these calls, I built a small web app for our own family (no app store, works offline, one purchase covers everyone) What's your family's defense against voice clones?