One of the typical scams in Russia is a message to the parents "mom, I out of money on my phone, please drom 20$ to this number" or "dad, I scratched someone's

One of the typical scams in Russia is a message to the parents "mom, I out of money on my phone, please drom 20$ to this number" or "dad, I scratched someone's car need 2000$ right now". In Germany it works with grandparents. They get calls from someone impersonating their grand-child in trouble. This works because in many families grandparents live separately and sometimes don't have much contact to their grandchildren (apart knowing that they exist). This threat is so real that there are police posters about this in community centers. So this works over text messages or phone calls without much sophisticated mimicing. I just imagine a whole new spin of this when AI/DL tech becomes a commodity. So I quite disagree with the "movie plot" estimation of the threat.