If the contact claims to speak Spanish, Yelland says, she will casually test their ability to understand and translate trickier phrases. If something doesn’t quite seem right, she’ll ask the person to join a Microsoft Teams call—with their camera on. Digital imposter scams aren’t new; messaging platforms, social media sites, and dating apps have long been rife with fakery. Deepfake videos are getting so good that longtime email scammers are pivoting to impersonating people on live video calls. Yelland says the scammers that approached her back in January were impersonating a real company, one with a legitimate product.