"you Creep! It Really Worked!": An Empirical Study of Telephone Scams with Cloned Familiar Voices and Trusted Caller IDs

Filipo Sharevski; Jennifer Vander Loop; Bill Evans; Alexander Ponticello

doi:10.1145/3774761.3774918

"you Creep! It Really Worked!": An Empirical Study of Telephone Scams with Cloned Familiar Voices and Trusted Caller IDs

Filipo Sharevski
, Jennifer Vander Loop
, Bill Evans
, Alexander Ponticello

DePaul University
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Original language	English
Title of host publication	New Security Paradigms Workshop, NSPW 2025
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	92-107
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400718755
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3774761.3774918
State	Published - Jan 29 2026
Event	New Security Paradigms Workshop, NSPW 2025 - Aerzen, Germany Duration: Aug 24 2025 → Aug 27 2025

Publication series

Name	New Security Paradigms Workshop, NSPW 2025

Conference

Conference	New Security Paradigms Workshop, NSPW 2025
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Aerzen
Period	8/24/25 → 8/27/25

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Hardware and Architecture
Information Systems
Software
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

Keywords

AI-enabled voice cloning
Caller ID spoofing
contextual scam warnings
familiar voice
telephone scams

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10.1145/3774761.3774918

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Sharevski, F., Vander Loop, J., Evans, B., & Ponticello, A. (2026). "you Creep! It Really Worked!": An Empirical Study of Telephone Scams with Cloned Familiar Voices and Trusted Caller IDs. In New Security Paradigms Workshop, NSPW 2025 (pp. 92-107). (New Security Paradigms Workshop, NSPW 2025). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3774761.3774918

"you Creep! It Really Worked!": An Empirical Study of Telephone Scams with Cloned Familiar Voices and Trusted Caller IDs. / Sharevski, Filipo; Vander Loop, Jennifer; Evans, Bill et al.
New Security Paradigms Workshop, NSPW 2025. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2026. p. 92-107 (New Security Paradigms Workshop, NSPW 2025).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Sharevski, F, Vander Loop, J, Evans, B & Ponticello, A 2026, "you Creep! It Really Worked!": An Empirical Study of Telephone Scams with Cloned Familiar Voices and Trusted Caller IDs. in New Security Paradigms Workshop, NSPW 2025. New Security Paradigms Workshop, NSPW 2025, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 92-107, New Security Paradigms Workshop, NSPW 2025, Aerzen, Germany, 8/24/25. https://doi.org/10.1145/3774761.3774918

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