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Open the companion tool →Why the scripts keep working
The grandparent scam is a script — an accident, an arrest, a hospital bill, a demand for secrecy — and now the voice reading it can be cloned from a few seconds of audio. The script works because it makes a family member afraid to check.
The defense is one habit: never act on the call itself. Hang up, call the family member back on the number you already have, and use a code word the family agreed on in advance. That habit ends every version of the script, cloned voice or not.
The protocol
- Recognize the script: an emergency, a demand for money, and a demand for secrecy.
- Do not act on the call. Use the pause phrase and hang up.
- Call the family member back on the number you already have — never one the caller gives.
- If money already moved, contact the bank and report to the FTC and the FBI's IC3.
What the tool does
Walk a suspicious family call through the script library and build the callback plan with a code word and saved number. It runs in this browser; nothing is sent or stored.
Limit first: This is a verification-habit aid, not a fraud investigation service. It can miss a pattern and it can flag an ordinary call. A clean reading never proves a voice is real.
Open the companion tool →One human next step
Set up the code word and the callback habit with family today. If money moved, act with the bank first, then report to the FTC and IC3.
Research log and safety checks
AI-assist path: not applicable — the artifact is a script library and a callback habit the family runs themselves; a model layer would add no verification value. §6.10: not a frontier-pace topic.
§0.5 protection result: category is elder-protection; crisis-adjacent: no; fear/urgency/scarcity toolkit used: no. The protective function is free and the paid feature is convenience only.