SALT LAKE CITY — That automatic, robotic message you often get when your call gets sent to someone’s voicemail? Yeah, I agree. It’s so impersonal, so boring and so lame.

Naw — it’s perfect for protecting your identity from being used in AI scam calls, said Brian Long, CEO of cybersecurity firm, Adaptive Security.

“Your voicemail greeting is the only thing an attacker needs to make a deep fake of your voice,” Long said.

He said one of the biggest schemes bad guys pull with AI is imposter scams.

“What’s particularly scary is they can use the voice of a friend, a loved one, in order to ask you to do something,” Long said.

Yeah, imposter scams have long been an issue. We have all been bombarded by those incessant robocalls, right? For decades, it’s been criminals pretending to be your

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