Vijay Balasubramaniyan, CEO of voice security company Pindrop, discusses the history of voice fraud scams in Japan with a16z General Partner Martin Casado.
“At that point in time, it had started costing Japan close to half a billion dollars in people losing their life savings To the scam.”
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