Your Family Member Is Calling for Help. But Is It Really Them?

Mercury Insurance issued a consumer-awareness release warning that AI voice-cloning is making family impersonation scams harder to detect, timed to CyberSecurity Awareness Month. It cites the FBI's 2025 Internet Crime Report, which logged more than 22,000 AI-related complaints with nearly $893 million in reported losses, and recommends family verification steps such as safe words and callback protocols.

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