{"id":15066,"date":"2025-05-06T15:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyai.com\/?p=15066"},"modified":"2026-10-24T18:18:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T18:18:52","slug":"whatsapp-warning-uk-parents-scammed-out-of-500k-by-ai-that-pretends-to-be-their-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyai.com\/nb\/2025\/05\/whatsapp-warning-uk-parents-scammed-out-of-500k-by-ai-that-pretends-to-be-their-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp-advarsel: Britiske foreldre svindlet for 500 000 pund av AI som later som om de er barna deres."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>En b\u00f8lge av AI-drevne svindelfors\u00f8k feier over WhatsApp og koster britiske familier nesten en halv million pund bare i 2025, og det er bare mai.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nettkriminelle kombinerer n\u00e5 gamle triks med ny teknologi. I den utviklende <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13032661\/text-message-scam-Nina-Merrilees-hi-Mum.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHei mamma\u201d-svindel<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, svindlere utgir seg for \u00e5 v\u00e6re en av sine n\u00e6rmeste via WhatsApp og ber om n\u00f8dkontanter.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Vrien<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">De bruker n\u00e5 AI-genererte talemeldinger til <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/ai-being-used-mimic-children-003800221.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADEm-Z21sA0mgSK2IQ1LFbNvvwuRR-xTvkCqsV8Nnp0oMwtYCT6zgaV5LhIjmCAU8G5ywoKxe6jWJZg_gBcIiOYios2ana4Hr565j12KatDVkfnG957xAp7dB3Qbvw-2WPenhyicq7hvqXrIYmX06GpF5ECCJug0StbmMEqdpEKh\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">etterligne barnestemmer,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> noe som gj\u00f8r bedraget skremmende overbevisende.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSvindlere blir stadig bedre p\u00e5 \u00e5 manipulere folk ... det er n\u00e5 enkelt \u00e5 klone en hvilken som helst stemme, selv p\u00e5 f\u00e5 \u00f8yeblikk\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sier Jake Moore, global r\u00e5dgiver for cybersikkerhet hos ESET.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Etter tallene:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">506 WhatsApp-svindelfors\u00f8k siden januar 2025<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ofrene tapte \u00a3490 606 ($651 230)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bare april: 135 saker, \u00a3127 417 tapt<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Slik fungerer det:<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Du f\u00e5r en WhatsApp fra et ukjent nummer: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHei mamma, jeg har mistet telefonen min.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">De hevder de er utestengt fra banken sin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">De sender en talemelding, og den <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lyder<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> som barnet ditt.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">De ber deg om \u00e5 overf\u00f8re penger til en ny konto umiddelbart.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-15073 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/900EB4EF-656A-4B84-90ED-6076F76AFF13-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"942\" height=\"942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/900EB4EF-656A-4B84-90ED-6076F76AFF13-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dailyai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/900EB4EF-656A-4B84-90ED-6076F76AFF13-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/900EB4EF-656A-4B84-90ED-6076F76AFF13-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/dailyai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/900EB4EF-656A-4B84-90ED-6076F76AFF13-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/dailyai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/900EB4EF-656A-4B84-90ED-6076F76AFF13-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/dailyai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/900EB4EF-656A-4B84-90ED-6076F76AFF13-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/dailyai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/900EB4EF-656A-4B84-90ED-6076F76AFF13-12x12.jpeg 12w, https:\/\/dailyai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/900EB4EF-656A-4B84-90ED-6076F76AFF13-878x878.jpeg 878w, https:\/\/dailyai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/900EB4EF-656A-4B84-90ED-6076F76AFF13-60x60.jpeg 60w, https:\/\/dailyai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/900EB4EF-656A-4B84-90ED-6076F76AFF13-480x480.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/dailyai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/900EB4EF-656A-4B84-90ED-6076F76AFF13-24x24.jpeg 24w, https:\/\/dailyai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/900EB4EF-656A-4B84-90ED-6076F76AFF13-48x48.jpeg 48w, https:\/\/dailyai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/900EB4EF-656A-4B84-90ED-6076F76AFF13-96x96.jpeg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 942px) 100vw, 942px\" \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Et skjermbildeutdrag av WhatsApp-svindelen med tekstmeldingen \u2018Hi mamma\u2019.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Foto: Santander<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h2><b>Faren<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Svindlere leter etter stemmeklipp og personlige detaljer p\u00e5 sosiale medier. Deretter bruker de generativ kunstig intelligens til \u00e5 klone stemmen og lage en troverdig historie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cJeg klarte \u00e5 lure min egen mor med en AI-versjon av stemmen min\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Moore innr\u00f8mmer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Hvem er i faresonen:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Foreldre med aktive barn p\u00e5 sosiale medier<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eldre brukere mindre kjent med AI-triks<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alle som mottar meldinger fra ukjente numre<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Hva du kan gj\u00f8re:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alltid <\/span>Ring tilbake med et lagret nummer f\u00f8r du sender penger<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Sett opp familiens \u2018kodeord\u2019 for \u00e5 bekrefte reelle n\u00f8dsituasjoner<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Send aldri penger til en ny konto uten bekreftelse<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Rapporter svindel til 7726 (britisk svindelrapporteringslinje)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Hvis du blir offer, kontakt banken din umiddelbart<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>V\u00e6r \u00e5rv\u00e5ken<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI-svindel utvikler seg raskt. WhatsApp, selv om det er kryptert, kan ikke stoppe noen med nummeret ditt fra \u00e5 sende deg meldinger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDisse svindelfors\u00f8kene utvikler seg i et halsbrekkende tempo\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> sier Chris Ainsley, leder for svindel i Santander.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI har forsterket en vanlig svindel. Hvis barnet ditt \u201cringer\u201d fra et merkelig nummer og ber om penger, b\u00f8r du tenke deg om to ganger. Ring dem deretter p\u00e5 nummeret du kjenner.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En b\u00f8lge av AI-drevne svindelfors\u00f8k feier over WhatsApp, og koster britiske familier nesten en halv million pund bare i 2025, og det er bare mai. Nettkriminelle kombinerer n\u00e5 gamle triks med ny teknologi. I den stadig utviklende \u201cHi Mum\u201d-svindelen utgir svindlere seg for \u00e5 v\u00e6re en kj\u00e6r person via WhatsApp og ber om n\u00f8dpenger. Twisten De bruker n\u00e5 AI-genererte talemeldinger for \u00e5 etterligne barnestemmer, noe som gj\u00f8r bedraget skremmende overbevisende. \u201cSvindlere blir stadig bedre til \u00e5 manipulere folk ... \u00e5 klone en hvilken som helst stemme er n\u00e5 enkelt, selv i l\u00f8pet av f\u00e5 \u00f8yeblikk\u201d, sier Jake Moore, global r\u00e5dgiver for nettsikkerhet hos ESET. I tall: 506 WhatsApp<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":15451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WhatsApp Warning: UK Parents Scammed Out of \u00a3500K by AI That Pretends to Be Their Kids | DailyAI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyai.com\/nb\/2025\/05\/whatsapp-warning-uk-parents-scammed-out-of-500k-by-ai-that-pretends-to-be-their-kids\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"nb_NO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WhatsApp Warning: UK Parents Scammed Out of \u00a3500K by AI That Pretends to Be Their Kids | DailyAI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A wave of AI-powered scams is sweeping across WhatsApp, costing UK families nearly half a million pounds in 2025 alone and it\u2019s only May. Cybercriminals are now combining old tricks with new tech. In the evolving \u201cHi Mum\u201d scam, fraudsters impersonate a loved one over WhatsApp and ask for emergency cash. The twist They\u2019re now using AI-generated voice messages to mimic children\u2019s voices, making the deception frighteningly convincing. \u201cScammers are increasingly getting better at manipulating people\u2026 cloning any voice is now simple, even in a matter of moments,\u201dsays Jake Moore, global cybersecurity advisor at ESET. 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