Stealing Voice Prints
This article feels like hyperbole:
The scam has arrived in Australia after being used in the United States and Britain.
The scammer may ask several times “can you hear me?”, to which people would usually reply “yes.”
The scammer is then believed to record the “yes” response and end the call.
That recording of the victim’s voice can then be used to authorise payments or charges in the victim’s name through voice recognition.
Are there really banking systems that use voice recognition of the word “yes” to authenticate? I have never heard of that.
TS • May 12, 2017 6:15 AM
Not banking per say,. but there’s several other services, such as your ISP who uses phone confirmations where you are informed to agree/disagree and the conversation is recorded. This is then used as a verbal contract.
Same with the power company here, you can request a service, and they record and follow a script to which you are required to agree,. which is then saved for future reference – in case you claim you never agreed to requesting such a service.
In this case the scammer could claim it wasn’t them – or request a service for their home, to which your voice agreed to pay for it,. i guess?