An Arizona mother is warning other parents after she almost became the target of a kidnapping hoax that sounded all too real.
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Jennifer DeStefano said her experience began when she received a phone call from a number she didn't recognize. She wouldn't have picked up but she knew her 15-year-old daughter Briana was on a skiing trip and she worried there could have been an emergency. "It's my daughter’s voice crying and sobbing, saying, 'Mom.' And I'm like, 'OK, what happened?'" DeStefano recalled.A woman looking at her phone
Then, DeStefano said a man demanded she pay a ransom in exchange for Briana's safe release. But he told her he didn't want a wire transfer for the ransom and wanted to go and pick her up instead.Luckily, DeStefano was able to confirm her daughter was safe within minutes but said the scheme utilized artificial intelligence or AI to reproduce her daughter's voice, a disturbing chain of events that hit close to home for the family.
"I started to wonder, like, if these people were asking to track my mom and pick her up, they could have obviously been putting some information together to try and track me or some of my siblings to actually make this a reality," Briana said."So it definitely scared me."
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