Fake Alice can steal your phone details. What to do

Alice’s voice assistant has firmly entered our lives: with it, you can not only search for information and set reminders or alarms, but even order a taxi. It was the popularity of the service that played a cruel joke with him: scammers found a way to use Alice for personal gain. True, the voice assistant has absolutely nothing to do with it. Just in case, Yandex warned about the fraud and said that the company had nothing to do with it. Understanding what to do if you Alice is calling and how to understand that this is a divorce.

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Alice is on the phone

Nowadays, phone scammers use various methods, but the most popular one is to introduce themselves as a bank employee. No matter how many jokes about it go, but people continue to give their card details to intruders. But they went further and began to invent new phone divorce plans – became one of them cheating with Alice on the phone. You get a call on the phone from a voice that looks like Alice (actually not) and makes a tempting offer. For example, to earn some money on the exchange, having previously lured your card details.

Company recommends hang up and blacklist the phone via Caller ID from Yandex. So he will mark the numbers as fraudulent, although, of course, there may be tens or hundreds of them, because scammers are constantly changing numbers. The text may also change, which, in fact, is not spoken by Alice at all.

Understanding that this is a scam is very simple: it is important to know that Alice knows how to make calls contacts from the address book, answer suspicious calls or record them. But she will never call herself and will not ask you for payment information. In the end, I don’t remember a single case when someone called from Yandex to resolve any issue: usually offers come in the form of notifications, and all issues are resolved in Yandex messenger, a specific application, or via email. In addition, Yandex.Station users will always know Alice’s real voice. We will talk about this below.

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Who voices Alice

Not everyone knows, but Alice is voiced by Tatyana Shitova. By the way, she is also the voice of actress Scarlett Johansson in many films, and you could also hear her in audio books. Distinguish Alice from scammers very easy: “in the original” it is staged, with a changing intonation. But according to the pronunciation of the voice assistant, it is felt that it is still glued together from different parts. For example, this is noticeable when you ask Alice a question, and she answers it.

Due to the fact that the voice assistant is not perfect, some words are stressed incorrectly, and pauses in phrases are minimal. It’s nothing like talking to you fake Aliceworking for scammers. You can listen to it by clicking on the link below.

Fake Alice

On the recording, the voice is completely different: the tonality is lower, there is no intonation at all, breathing is heard at the end – the voice assistant clearly does not have it. From the point of view of an expert, she told us about the differences in the voices of the two Alice Natasha Malec — business coach in public speaking and negotiations, founder of the Moscow School of Radio.

The fake Alice has dialects, as if she “came in large numbers to the capital” (like many of us, by the way), but for voice acting, announcers are usually attracted without a dialect or with a Moscow dialect (yes, it exists). The voice of the real Alice also belongs to a clearly professional announcer with acting skills, which is why we hear a slight robotic effect, the fake Alice could not play it. Well, the third difference is that Tatyana Shitova (the “real” Alice) has a voice set, her fake has a pleasant one, but nothing more.

Yandex employees also came to the conclusion after studying the recording that the text was not well read, but the fake voice was difficult to recognize immediately. Especially if you take into account the distortion when calling on a mobile phone. However, if you use voice assistant from Yandex every day, you will recognize the “fake” Alice, as they say, from two notes.

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What to do if unknown numbers call

Fraud call from Alice – just a drop in the ocean of telephone scams. But the algorithm, in order not to fall for the hook of scammers, is, in general, the same. Remember.

• Do not answer or call back calls from unknown numbers.
• Use caller ID. Now Yandex, Sberbank, and Tinkoff have them. During the call, the system will display what the call was, and you decide whether to answer or not.
• In the end, if you don’t trust the identifiers, just type the number into the search engine – you will definitely find relevant reviews about scam numbers.
• Do not provide card numbers, account passwords, and the like – this is confidential information that no respectful company will ask you over the phone.
• Do not engage in dialogue, hang up immediately. Doubt? Write to Yandex support via messenger in the browser – they will definitely prompt you.

Most importantly, be sure to warn your older relatives: it is people of age who are the main target of intruders.

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