Kaspersky details the five stages of vishing and how to spot AI-driven phone scams
Kaspersky senior security researcher María Isabel Manjarrez described at Cyber Security Week 2026 in Salvador de Bahía, Brazil, the "anatomy of a scam" over the phone, or vishing: pretext, trust, urgency, pressure and action. She warned that AI advances allow voices of relatives to be replicated using audio samples gathered from social media, public appearances or previous calls, so recognizing a voice no longer guarantees authenticity. Her main recommendation is to hang up and verify through official channels.
In 40 seconds
- Phone scams, or vishing, follow five steps: pretext, building trust, urgency, pressure and getting the victim to act.
- Scammers use data from breaches, social media, commercialized databases and previous calls to pose as banks, relatives or police.
- AI can replicate voices from audio samples collected on social media, public appearances or earlier calls, so a familiar voice no longer proves authenticity.
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