Scammers use sophisticated new technology to terrorize California family: 'Where is my son?'

A California family endured a terrifying ordeal when scammers using artificial intelligence fooled them into believing their son had been in a serious accident. Amy Trapp was working a normal day at Mill Valley school near San Francisco when she received a call from an unknown number and picked up the phone to the sound of a voice that she believed to be her son, according to a report from the San Francisco Chronicle. "It was my son's voice on the phone crying, telling me, 'Mom, mom, I've been in a car accident,'" Trapp told the outlet. The mother said she instantly felt a panic and had visions of her son, who was away at college near California's central coast, lying underneath a car or on the side of the road in a pool of his own blood. Instead, another voice came on the phone and told Trapp he was a police officer and that her son, Will, had injured a pregnant woman in the crash and was taken to jail.