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Voice fraud detection for banks and call centers.

Updated July 2026

Cloned voices now authorize wire transfers and pass phone checks. Verify a suspicious recording in under half a second and get a citable verdict your fraud team can act on and file.

Flagged recordingCase review
Verdict
Likely synthetic
Model
ElevenLabs v2
AI voice fraud uses a cloned voice to authorize a payment or disclosure that a person never approved. You defeat it by not acting on the voice alone: verify unusual requests out of band, and run the recording through a detector, which returns the probability it was machine-generated, a confidence level, and the source model, in under half a second. Analysis is post-hoc, on recordings, not live calls.
The threat

The voice is now the weakest link

A convincing clone needs only seconds of sample audio, and the scripts are consistent. In executive-impersonation (CEO) fraud, an attacker mimics a leader and instructs a finance team member to move money, as in the 2024 Hong Kong case where a worker was deceived into transferring about 25 million US dollars (reported by CNN). In vishing and family-emergency scams, the same technique targets call-center agents and relatives. The US Federal Trade Commission has warned that scammers now use AI to enhance these schemes, and losses are logged by the FBI's IC3.

The common thread is urgency plus a trusted-sounding voice used to bypass normal controls. Detection is the second line of defense behind process (dual approval, callbacks): once a recording exists, you can prove whether the voice was synthetic.

How fraud teams use it

From flagged recording to filed verdict

The detector reads the acoustic signature of the audio, so it works on cloned and stock voices and names the generator where it recognizes one. It fits a review workflow, not a live switchboard.

01 . Verify

Screen the recording

Drop a flagged voicemail, call recording, or voice note into the detector, or post it to the API. Verdict, confidence, and model in about half a second.

02 . Integrate

Into your workflow

The REST API returns JSON with webhooks for bulk and async jobs, so screening runs inside your case-review or fraud tooling. No live-call interception required.

03 . File

Keep the evidence

Save the verdict for a permanent citation URL, a methodology version stamp, and a one-way fingerprint, ready for a case file or a law-enforcement referral.

0.48s
Median verdict
99%
Accuracy on clean audio
24+
Generators named
24h
Audio deleted after
What it is, and is not

Detection, not authentication

We detect whether a voice is machine-generated. That is different from voice biometrics, which verifies a known enrolled speaker as a login factor. The two are complementary: biometrics answers "is this the right person," and we answer "is this a real human voice at all," which is exactly the gap synthetic-voice attacks exploit. Use the detector as an anti-spoofing and post-incident check alongside your existing controls.

We analyze recordings after the fact. We do not tap, monitor, or block live calls, and we do not store your audio beyond 24 hours unless you save a verdict. For the audit trail and citation model, see the API; for how the underlying detection works, see how to detect AI voices. Related reading: spotting AI voice scams and the dangers of AI voices.

FAQ · Fraud detection

Common questions

Can you detect AI voice fraud in a phone call?
We analyze recordings, not live calls. Save the voicemail, call recording, or voice note and run it through the detector, or send it through the API in your fraud-review workflow. You get a probability, a confidence level, and the recognized model, usually in under half a second. We do not intercept or monitor live calls.
What kinds of voice fraud does this help with?
Cloned-voice CEO and executive-impersonation fraud, vishing (voice phishing) calls, family-emergency and grandparent scams, and any case where a synthetic voice is used to authorize a payment or disclosure. The detector reads the synthesis signature regardless of the script.
Is this voice biometrics or authentication?
No. Voice biometrics verifies a known enrolled speaker's identity. We do the complementary job: detecting whether a voice is machine-generated at all. Use us alongside biometrics as an anti-spoofing and post-incident check, not as a login.
Can we integrate it into our fraud tooling?
Yes. The REST API returns the same JSON verdict as the public detector, with webhooks for bulk and async jobs, so you can screen flagged recordings inside your case-review or SIEM workflow. See the API page.
Is the verdict usable as evidence?
Yes. Every saved verdict has a permanent citation URL, a methodology version stamp, and a one-way audio fingerprint, so a verdict can support a fraud case file, a dispute, or a law-enforcement referral.

Screen a suspicious recording now.

Free for a single verdict. API access for fraud teams on Starter and above.

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