Went through to delete old voicemails on my phone, like 50 of them over the lastt 6 months. Most of them were some kind of tax/banking/loan emergency or cash windfall I needed to follow up on asap. All of them sounded like real people at real companies/government entities.

Realized afterwards that if some ACTUAL govt entity or company needs to warn me about something, can't get through on voicemail, I'd never believe it. As AI gets better at these scams, it'll obsolete email and text for that purpose as well. Snail mail is the last remaining refuge for entities like the IRS, and eventually the scammers will probably figure out a way to kill that too.

IOW, the scammers will set us free via plausible deniability.