Artificial intelligence no longer just writes text or creates images. Today, it can also copy your voice with alarming accuracy. What’s most unsettling is that to achieve this, scammers don’t need lengthy recordings: a few seconds of audio captured during a call are enough

That’s why a simple response like “yes,” “hello,” or even “uh-huh” can become a tool for committing fraud, identity theft, and financial scams.

The voice is no longer just a way of speaking. Now it’s a biometric data point as valuable as your fingerprint or your face.

Your voice is a digital signature.

New technologies can analyze the tone, intonation, rhythm, and manner in which you speak. With this, they create a digital model capable of reproducing your voice as if it were you.

Once a criminal has this model, they can:

Call family members pretending to be you

Send voice messages asking for money

Authorize payments

Access services that use voice recognition

All without you being present.

Why Saying “Yes” Is So Dangerous

There’s a scam known as the “yes” trap. It works like this:

They call you and ask a simple question