Don't make calls with Siri, Alexa or Google or you could get scammed

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Don't make calls with Siri or Google or you could get scammed
August 17, 2019
https://mashable.com/article/google-siri-phone-call-scam/?europe=true

Phone calls made with voice assistants could open people up to scammers, who have found a clever new way to exploit our growing dependence on Siri and Google. That's according to the Better Business Bureau, which issued a warning about the scheme.

Here's how it goes down, according to the BBB: you need to call a business, like an airline, but you don't know what number to call. So you do what many of us do and ask Google or Siri to "call [business name]" for you you.
But instead of calling your bank or your airline, the assistant calls a scammer impersonating someone from the company, who will try to trick you into sending them money.

The scheme itself is actually pretty simple. Scammers buy search ads containing the false "company" phone numbers and pay to feature them prominently in search results. If you were to see the ads in your own search results, you might easily identify it as a scam. But assistants aren't necessarily good at making those distinctions [...]
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Better Business Bureau: Scam Alert: Using Voice Search? Use Caution When Asking for Auto Dial from Your Smart Device

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