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If it feels like it's getting harder and harder to avoid being scammed, that's because it is. In the age of artificial intelligence, scammers are using voice cloning that can sound very real, and ...

Beware of this insidious online scam that's making the rounds.

I am writing to alert our community to a sophisticated phone scam currently circulating in Santa Barbara. I experienced this firsthand. I received a call from someone claiming to be with the Santa ...