{"id":1758,"date":"2026-10-01T08:57:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T08:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2026-10-01T08:57:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T08:57:40","slug":"ai-scam-uses-fake-doctor-calls-to-target-mandarin-speaking-victims-in-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/blog\/2026\/10\/01\/ai-scam-uses-fake-doctor-calls-to-target-mandarin-speaking-victims-in-victoria\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Scam Uses Fake Doctor Calls to Target Mandarin-Speaking Victims in Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scammers are using artificial intelligence to imitate doctors\u2019 voices and target Mandarin-speaking people in Victoria, police have warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ABC News reported that Victoria Police received 10 reports of the scam in September. In one case, a victim lost $50,000 after being told by someone using the voice of a medical professional to buy gift cards. Another victim lost $40,000 after a scammer posing as a medical professional repeatedly pressured them to buy more gift cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said the scammers use victims\u2019 real names to make the calls appear genuine and may imitate doctors, general practitioners and surgeons using AI voice cloning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Victoria Police has advised people not to provide money, gift-card codes or personal information during unexpected calls and to contact their doctor or clinic directly using an official phone number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scammers are using artificial intelligence to imitate doctors\u2019 voices and target Mandarin-speaking people in Victoria, police have warned. ABC News reported that Victoria Police received 10 reports of the scam in September. In one case, a victim lost $50,000 after being told by someone using the voice of a medical professional to buy gift cards. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,179,418,43],"tags":[539,94,191,543,541],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-australia","category-crime","category-technology-and-science","tag-ai-scam","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-australia","tag-online-safety","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}