ScamShield
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Scam type: Grandparent / family emergency
9/27/2026, 9:36 AM EDT · 3m 11s
Caller claims to be Vanessa (granddaughter) and urgently needs $3000 for bail after arrest.
Ask the caller for your family safe word. If they cannot say it, hang up immediately. You can also call Vanessa at +1 470 418 6238 - a number you already have.
Call started
Asked Vanessa: Is this Vanessa?
Vanessa confirmed it was them
authority_impersonation
“I need $3,000. I just was at the police station. I got”
authority_impersonation
“I'm talking from a stranger's phone number. Please help me. I love you, Grandma.”
authority_impersonation
“send that money. I'm gonna send you a link.”
authority_impersonation
“I'm talking from a stranger's phone number.”
authority_impersonation
“send that money. I'm gonna send you a link. Can you please send money for me? I need to be bailed out, please. I'm talking from a stranger's phone number. Please help me. I love you, Grandma.”
authority_impersonation
“send that money. I'm gonna send you a link. Can you please send money for me? I need to be bailed out, please”
authority_impersonation
“send that money. I'm gonna send you a link. Can you please send money for me? I need to be bailed out, please.”
authority_impersonation
“send that money. I'm gonna send you a link. Can you please send money for me? I need to be bailed out, please. ... I love you, Grandma.”
authority_impersonation
“this is Vanessa,”
authority_impersonation
“granddaughter. Um, I need $3,000. I just was at the police station. I got arrested”
urgency
“send that money. I'm gonna send you a link. Can you please send money for me? I need to be bailed out, please. ... I love you, Grandma.”
From Kale’s app (AssemblyAI), not guessed by Grok
senior
contact and it'll start recording. Unknown caller detected.
caller
Hello,
senior
So he's gonna say some scammer stuff,
caller
this is Vanessa,
senior
and after about 20 seconds,
caller
your grand—
senior
plus some time for it to upload to the server,
caller
granddaughter. Um, I need $3,000. I just was at the police station. I got
caller
arrested, uh, for— send that money. I'm gonna send you a link. Can you please send money for me? I need to be bailed out, please. I'm talking from a stranger's phone number. Please help me. I love you, Grandma. We could really hear what you're saying. It gives us a little something. So I'll say, caller is claiming to be Vanessa, is asking for $3,000. Sounds likely a scam.
caller
It's a very low chance because he isn't human. And so it's all integrated with a guiding path. So we're basically protecting grandma, right? Nice, nice. So yeah, so not just protecting, right?
caller
This is his phone number, his grandson, right? And this is the granddaughter I'm calling. We have a bunch of other content. We have a safe mode in case, um, we have an AI voice calling us impersonating the daughter. Okay, correct. And so our
caller
Ask Grandma, ask for a safe word. That's safe. Yeah, yes, immediately hang up. There's another— in case Grandma forgets a safe word, there's another option. Call your—
caller
And it will literally send you a notification on this app. And so we can test that, but we'll need to rerun this also. Okay, um, did you document— yeah, do you have that available?
caller
We have the GitHub, and so the person who worked on our ML model for the NSC challenge is on his way here. And so AI voice protector.
caller
And then I worked on the backend to this program, then the text, just the scanning part. And then he worked on the dashboard, connecting it to— and so yeah, this is our GitHub. Here, I'm gonna hang with you. I'll just end this.
senior
It automatically stopped recording as well.