Your voice may be the easiest thing about you to steal. In its 2025 Internet Crime Report, the FBI logged nearly $20.9 billion in total losses across more than 1,008,597 complaints, and for the first time in roughly 25 years it gave artificial intelligence its own category: $893 million lost to AI-driven fraud.
Two playbooks dominate. The first is the family-in-distress call, where a cloned voice of a loved one begs for help. The second is executive wire fraud, where a cloned CFO orders a transfer. The landmark case is still the loudest: in 2024 the engineering firm Arup lost $25.6 million, wired in 15 transfers in a single day, after one video call with a deepfaked chief financial officer and colleagues.
The people who trust a familiar voice most get hit hardest. Older Americans lost roughly $352 million to these schemes, and total internet-crime losses jumped about 26% in a single year. Cloning a voice no longer takes much, just a few seconds of audio that is often already online.
The root problem is simple: AI voice ships with no built-in proof of who is really speaking. At PATech we build voice agents with caller verification and a human in the loop, so a voice alone is never the whole password. Watch the breakdown above, and check the linked FBI and case sources below.