I'm personally somewhat nervous about what voice phishers will be able to accomplish with call ID once voice sample synthesis gets good enough and cheap enough,

I'm personally somewhat nervous about what voice phishers will be able to accomplish with call ID once voice sample synthesis gets good enough and cheap enough, which is well on the way from what I can tell. Shades of that old Uplink game, call up a family member or friend and just get them to talk into the phone at all, not even give up personal information but literally just speak enough. Then the phisher can call up the target, spoof that number, and directly have the voice sound just like someone the target knows. The voice and the Call ID will both check out, and this should actually be a lower target then the kind of voice synthesis work currently being done because phone calls are highly compressed and tend to be not great quality anyway. Once that hits general usage along with the kind of ML and social network graphs being done up couldn't that just plain be it for phone usage if companies can't come up with a proper cryptographically verified call scheme (which would require new phones, for everyone)? I mean, if a call coming in directly from a "trusted contact's number" that is literally in their voice becomes generally a scam too I think that'd have to be a real tipping point for the general population. I can't see any choice at that point but to disable all incoming calls period, and move my family over to something else as well. And that tech train is coming down the tracks pretty fast, there have to be at least some phone providers who can see that right? Heavily automatically run personalized ML powered social media and ad network profile fed phishing calls in a relative's voice, yeah that'll be really fun.