ScamShield
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Scam type: Grandparent / family emergency
9/27/2026, 10:36 AM EDT · 1m 4s
Caller claims to be your granddaughter Vanessa in jail needing $3,000 immediately. Recording was stopped manually — the listener recognized the caller.
Put the call on hold. We sent an "Is this Vanessa?" check to Vanessa on the family app. Wait for their answer before you continue. 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
“Please send me money.”
authority_impersonation
“to send me money, $3,000. Please send me money.”
authority_impersonation
“to send me money, $3,000. Please send me money.”
From Kale’s app (AssemblyAI), not guessed by Grok
senior
It'll detect, I removed him as a contact. This is a random number.
caller
Hi,
caller
this is— hi, Nani, this is Vanessa, your granddaughter.
senior
Vanessa, your granddaughter. Again, so it's kind of hard to hear what he's saying, but he's saying some scammy stuff here.
caller
I'm in jail with a DUI. I need you
caller
to send me money, $3,000. Please send me money.
senior
He's going to be impersonating
senior
my granddaughter. And so it analyzes the audio in 20-second chunks, then sends it to Grok to output
senior
what we're about to see here. Got you, got you. So you're using Groq and the agent is sending it to Groq to be able to analyze it and then bring back the results. Yes. And then that also feeds directly into our app here. So we have a family app. And so, yeah, so this part is what Groq gives and the
senior
This part is— this is the— yeah, these are separate models trained on your data. And like, this gives low. So let's say it's anonymous, it's not a human being. Yeah, because it was me. Yeah, I was talking. 98% human. He's 98% human. And so it's saying it's