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If the voice on the phone says it’s your daughter, ask for the family safe word.

Voice cloning now takes a few seconds of audio from a video, a voicemail, a podcast. The call sounds right because it is her voice. A phrase only your family knows is the one thing the clone can’t reproduce.

Make one below, print it, and put it where someone would reach for it during a call they weren’t expecting.

Your family’s phrase

Two words that have nothing to do with each other and nothing to do with you. Easy to say on a bad connection, impossible to guess from anything you’ve posted.

Who knows it

Optional. Printing the names settles the question of who to call when someone doesn’t answer.

This runs entirely in your browser. The phrase is never sent to us, never saved, and never stored on this device. Print it before you close the tab.
Family verification card
Ask the caller: what’s our phrase?
copper lantern
They say it. You never say it first. If they can’t, hang up and call the number you already have for them.

How a phrase actually gets used

The word itself is the easy part. What makes it work is the habit around it, and the rule that the caller supplies it.

1

Ask, don’t offer

Never say the phrase first to see if they react. A scammer who hears it once has it for good. Ask for it and wait.

2

Hang up and call back

Use the number already saved in your phone, not the one they’re calling from. A real relative will pick up. This works even if the phrase is forgotten.

3

Keep it off every screen

No texts, no email, no notes app, no shared album caption. Paper only. Anything on a phone can be read by anyone who gets into that phone.

4

Change it after it’s used

Once a phrase has been said on a real call, or in a room where it could be overheard, it’s spent. Make a new one and reprint.

What your phrase can’t be

Every one of these is sitting in a public record or a broker profile right now.

  • A pet’s name. It’s in your photo captions and half of your security questions.
  • A street you lived on. Address history is the single most widely resold fact about you.
  • A birthday, anniversary or age. Sold in bulk, and often the reason the call targets you.
  • A school, team or hometown. Public on any profile you’ve had since 2009.
  • A maiden name. Marriage records are public and indexed.
  • Anything you’d pick as a password. If it’s memorable because it’s meaningful, it’s guessable.

The reason this list is so long

The details that make a good memorable phrase are the same details data brokers collect and resell. That’s also what makes a cloned voice convincing: the caller already knows your address, your relatives’ names, where you work.

You can see what’s exposed about you and start getting it removed.

See what’s exposed about you

Send yourself the blank card

We’ll email the printable card and the one-page protocol so you can set this up with the rest of your family. We never include your phrase — the whole point is that it doesn’t live in an inbox.

Sent. Check your inbox for the printable card and protocol.

Setting this up for a parent who lives alone, or for a whole facility? Ask us about printed cards.

Cut along the dashed lines. Fold or tape the two small cards back to back for a wallet. The large card is for a fridge or a landline.

Ask the caller: what’s our phrase?
copper lantern
They say it. You never say it first. If they can’t, hang up and call the number you already have.
  1. Ask for the phrase. Don’t say it first or accept “you know it’s me.”
  2. Hang up and call back on the number already in your phone.
  3. Slow it down. Urgency, secrecy and money is the pattern.
  4. Tell one other person before sending anything.
Change the phrase after any real incident. aiprotection.org
Ask the caller: what’s our phrase?
copper lantern
They say it. You never say it first. If they can’t say it, hang up and call the number you already have for them. Urgency, secrecy and money together is the pattern — whoever it sounds like.