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This reminds me of the IRS phone scams. The IRS does not have an actual voice actor record their phone messages or phone tree, they just use a text-to-speech system that is commercially available

So, the scammers just use the same system so the phone messages you get from them sound like the same voice you hear if you actually call the IRS

For just a little extra money they could pay someone to exclusively record IRS messages and the voice would never be the same as the scammers (at least, until someone replicates the real voice with AI but that's an issue for another day)



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