A phone call from “IT security” used to be easier to dismiss when it sounded robotic or scripted. That’s not the world we’re in anymore. We built a voice agent fast, with no coding, and it can place outbound calls, sound convincingly human, and guide a conversation toward the exact kinds of details attackers love to collect. The scary part is not that social engineering exists, it’s that the hard-to-scale parts just became cheap, quick, and repeatable.

We play a live vishing simulation on the show and then break it down like defenders: what the agent asked for, which answers were more sensitive than they felt in the moment, and how a simple URL prompt can turn a friendly call into a real compromise path. We also talk about why this threatens more than corporate users, especially older adults and anyone who trusts the “helpful support” pattern that scammers exploit.

Then we get practical. We connect voice phishing back to the fundamentals of social engineering detection and lay out realistic steps: hang up and call back through the main line, verify through a second channel, and design business processes that assume the caller could be a bot. We also discuss how to run targeted vishing tests for roles like accounts payable, HR, and executive support, then use the data to focus training where it actually reduces risk.

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