Cognitive Heists series #3: The Call Is Coming from Inside Your Mind

📞 The Call Is Coming from Inside Your Mind Welcome to of the "Cognitive Heists" series. The Voice in Your Head -- Authority, Audio Deepfakes, and the Power of a Familiar Voice In 2019, a UK energy firm received a call. The voice on the other end sounded exactly like the CEO of their German parent company. The request? Transfer €220,000 immediately to a trusted vendor. It wasn’t the CEO. It was a deepfake. This was the first confirmed deepfake voice fraud used to commit corporate theft—and it’s only the beginning. This issue dives into: 🎧 Why voice is one of the most powerful trust signals—and why that’s dangerous now 😨 How vishing, voice cloning, and audio deepfakes hijack your certainty 👻 A classic urban legend (yep—the babysitter and the call from inside the house) 🧠 The psychology of obedience, panic, and auditory illusion 🧯 And how to train your brain to pause the response before the wire transfer In a world where your boss’s voice can be faked, what part of your brain do you not listen to? A couple relevant sources related to AI based voice scams: [PROVED] Unsuspecting Call Recipients Are Super Vulnerable to AI Vishing: (this is my story about having an AI voice bot participate in DEFCON's Social Engineering Community Capture the Flag competition). Seeing (and Hearing) Isn’t Believing: My SEC Presentation on AI-Driven Scams: The FAIK Files: AI Oopsies! Audio version: YouTube version: TechCrunch story: Google’s Gemini panicked when playing Pokémon: P.S. -- Just a quick reminder that I've got a great book out that's all about deepfakes, disinformation, and deception. Be sure to check it out if you haven't already: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Cognitive Heists series #3: The Call Is Coming from Inside Your Mind is an episode from 8th Layer Insights by Perry Carpenter | N2K Networks.

This episode is 12:12 long.

This episode was published on Jul 25, 2025.

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