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This story is relayed to me directly from the daughter involved. But no facts were double checked for this post….

Part 1
Mom calls daughter on the daughters cell phone, from Mom’s land-line.
Signal is intercepted and voices are recorded by the interceptor.
Repeat often, until enough of the voices are recorded in order to go to part 2.

Part 2
Daughter receives call, looks at the ID, see’s “Mom” and answers the phone.
A strange conversation occurs. Daughter is convinced Mom has had a little stroke and having problem with memories.
Daughter calls Mom the next day. Mom denies having the conversation.
Next day, Daughter get’s a call from “Mom” again, but due to cell phone coverage, the call cannot completely connect.
When Daughter arrives into area with better coverage she calls Mom back. Time elapsed, 2 minutes. Mom denies having called Daughter 2 minutes ago. Both parties think either Mom or Daughter is having some mental issues.
Daughter, being a very smart lady, tells Mom to retrieve phone call records from phone company.

Part 3
Phone company tells Mom, and I’m paraphrasing, “Oh we’ve been having trouble with scammers who break into calls, record voices, pump the voices into computers, then use the synthetic voices to call relatives of the person who’s voice is being imitated.”
It appears that scam artists can now use voice software and computer systems to try and scam people out of money. Wow. Have we entered the second age of the Nigerian scam?

So the next time “Mom” calls you and asks to wire her some money………tell her you’ll call her back.