Deepfake Attacks, Voice Cloning, and Why AI Social Engineering Works
Cyber Crime Junkies
Real-World Harms: Scams and Hiring Fraud
Hosts and Perry describe romance scams, elder fraud, and deepfake job interviews impacting hiring and HR.
Why modern cybercrime targets trust, urgency, and decision-making instead of systems
Deepfake Attacks, Voice Cloning, and Why AI Social Engineering Works
Traditional fraud used to feel obvious: misspellings, odd links, weird emails.
Now? Deepfakes embed perfectly familiar voices and faces into your feed — or your inbox.
Listen to Perry Carpenter on this. If you love this topic as much as we do grab Perry's incredible book FAIK available everywhere. Here's a non-affiliated link: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/faik-perry-carpenter/1145888787?ean=2940190971293
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Chapters
00:00 Why the Next Breach Won’t Look Like the Last One
01:44 Welcome to America in 2026
03:00 Why Deepfakes Are Exploding Right Now
05:20 Yes — A Voice Can Be Cloned in Seconds
07:30 What Deepfakes Actually Are (No Hype)
09:35 Legitimate Uses vs Weaponized Intent
12:45 Why Deepfake Companies Stay Quiet
17:05 Faces and Voices Are the New Attack Surface
18:30 Stop Asking “Is This Real?” Ask This Instead
20:55 Why Spotting Artifacts No Longer Works
23:45 The One Question That Cuts Through Deepfakes
25:50 What Leaders Should Actually Do Today
27:45 Old-School Security Still Wins
30:05 Why Detection Tools Are Losing the Race
33:10 Romance Scams, HR Fraud, and Deepfake Hiring
35:45 10 of 15 Job Candidates Were Fake — Here’s Why
38:40 Fake Workers, Real Access, Real Damage
42:20 Deepfakes as Multi-Stage Attack
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