Scammers use AI, frantic calls to gain money [Video]

ATLANTA — There are few things more frightening than getting a phone call that someone close to you is in serious trouble and needs your help and money immediately. It is happening right now to thousands of people. 

Dyan Jacobus and her mom share a close bond. It’s the same affection her mom has for her grandson.

So, when her mom got a frantic call from someone claiming to be her grandson, pleading for help, she immediately acted.

“He was super agitated and really upset,” she described. “‘Grandma, I am in trouble. I’ve been in a car accident. I am in the hospital ,but the police are holding me.’ It was a elaborate story. ‘That person I hit was pregnant and might lose the baby and it might be vehicular homicide.’ So they really got my mom going,” Jacobus …