Exactly a week later, more or less exactly the same time, I received another notification to approve my Gmail account recovery again from the United S

Gmail Account Takeover: Super Realistic AI Scam Call | Sam Mitrovic

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2024-10-13 10:30:06

Exactly a week later, more or less exactly the same time, I received another notification to approve my Gmail account recovery again from the United States.

He says that someone has had access to my account for a week and that they have downloaded the account data (I then get a flashback of the recovery notification a week before).

In the background, I can hear someone typing on the keyboard and throughout the call there is some background noise reminiscent of a call centre.

He tells me that he has sent the email. After a few moments, the email arrives and at a first glance the email looks legit – the sender is from a Google domain.

However, again spoofing an email address is easy and I notice that the To field contains an email address cleverly named GoogleMail at InternalCaseTracking dot com (non-Google domain).

The caller said Hello, I ignored it then about 10 seconds later, then said Hello again. At this point I released it as an AI voice as the pronunciation and spacing were too perfect.