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me, help me, help me." even just saying it gives me chills. >> byron: it was an a.i.-generated recording designed to shake her down, a new twist to an old crime. >> it's literally the fastest-evolving technology that us humans have ever encountered. >> byron: tips how to keep your loved ones safe. >> as far as social media in the future, i won't be posting any videos of my voice. >> byron: more than 25 years of "sex and the city." the ground-breaking show that's still giving voice to generations of women. >> if it wasn't a shared experience that was real, it could not be made up. >> hello, lover. >> byron: shoes, second, and sisterhood. four women in the big city changing the way we worked and dreamed, lived and loved. >> oh, berger broke up with me on a post-it. yep. read and it weep, my friends. >> byron: diane sawyer one on one with sarah jessica parker. >> did you feel you were a samantha or a miranda?

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fast-evolving technology to exploit family bonds for money. some experts saying kidnapping schemes using a.i. are now on the rise. here's abc's ike ajache. >> i get a phone call from an unknown number. and it's my daughter's voice. and brie says, "mom?" and she's crying and sobbing. "mom, i messed up." >> reporter: a mother's worst nightmare in realtime. >> 911, do you need police, fire or medical? >> police. >> reporter: the panicked voice on the call sounding exactly like jennifer's oldest daughter, briana, begging to be saved from kidnappers. >> i hear her say, "bad men have me, help me, help me, help me." even saying it gives me chills. >> the callers, not kidnappers at all. professional scammer. >> did you have any doubts it

was your daughter on the other end of that line? >> no doubts. >> reporter: briana was safe and sound. scammers allegedly using artificial intelligence as a virtual disguise, mimicking briana's voice to try to expact money from her panicked family. just one in an alarming trend. one of the largest cybersecurity firms in the country says they've seen a substantial increase in a.i. scams and attacks in the last year. phone and cyber scams took approximately $10 billion out of the pockets of americans in 2022. but this new spin on that old scam threatening to cost far more than money. our collective sense of trust and connectedness on the line. when jennifer got that disturbing call from an unknown number on january 20th, her 15-year-old daughter, briana, had been away on a ski trip. >> this man gets on, "listen here, i have your daughter. you call anybody, you call the police, i'm going to pump your

daughter so far of drugs, have my way with her, drop her in mexico, you'll never see your daughter again." >> reporter: she'd give anything to get her daughter back. >> he said a million dollars, which was impossible. i went into panic door. i put the phone on mute and started screaming for help. >> reporter: a nearby acquaintance overheard the commotion and called 911. >> a mother just came in, she received a phone call from someone who has her daughter, a kidnapper on the phone saying he wants a million dollar. >> okay, so that is a very popular scam. are they asking her to go get gift cards and things like that? >> she was incredibly calm. then she started to ask more questions that i thought at the time were ridiculous questions. >> what was she asking you? >> things like, has she spoken to her daughter? does anyone know that she -- that this person has her daughter? >> have you tried to contact her daughter? has she contacted her? >> well, she's on the phone with him currently. >> i don't know the answer to any of those questions. we're panicked. can you send the police?

>> reporter: jennifer was able to get through to her husband, also on the ski trip. what were you thinking when your dad came rushing in? >> so weird, i thought i was in trouble. "i swear i didn't do anything!" >> i kept saying, "are you sure you're safe?" in my head i was having such a hard time believing that she's there, here. >> reporter: questions remain unanswered. who or what was actually on the other end of the line? and perhaps more importantly how they were able to impersonate briana well enough to fool her own mother. >> we combed everything that's out there. she's not a big social media person. she's done a couple of interviews. nothing where she's crying and sobbing. that's what baffles us. that's what concerned her the most, where did they get my crying, my sobs? >> reporter: experts warn even a few seconds of social media content can give scammers all they need. >> it's literally the fastest-evolving technology that us humans have ever encountered. >> reporter: whit johnson, my colleague, paid a visit to pete

micaletti of checkpoint technologies, one of the largest cybersecurity firms, to better understand how a.i. is changing the game for scammers. >> scammers now have a.i. tools to make the same old scam now faster, easier, cheaper, more plausible. that's the problem. >> reporter: we wanted to hear from the team at checkpoint can do using a.i. with just a ten-minute sample of whit's voice. this is not a real call. >> i just went out to lunch with the crew and my company credit card is not working. sending you a link to pay back the guy nakthat that covered me >> criminals can easily impersonate your phone number so it says "whit's cell." >> reporter: trying to convince whit's family members that he was kidnapped. >> my love, it is me, whit. please listen carefully, i have been abducted and being held in a basement, tied up in the dark. please follow their instructions. do not notify the authorities. >> you look scared, whit.

>> well, i -- i am. that's very believable. >> these scammers now can have a conversation with you in realtime. there's tools where you can actually type it in and use your voice. >> reporter: again, the audio you're about to hear is not real. >> please send the money! this is for real! they're asking me to say the date of life, it's june 14th. please send the money now! >> the a.i. can adjust the inflection am my voice? >> absolutely. we don't have any recordings of you under stress, but i can change your voice to where you're stressed. >> reporter: micaletti says all family members should adopt a safe word to be used when talking with a loved one who's supposedly been kidnapped. rich frankel, a former fbi special agent, says this kind of cyber crime is hard to stop. he recommends recording any suspicious call, then try to reach loved ones directly. >> call law enforcement right away. because if it is a real kidnapping, you want law enforcement involved. if it's a scam, you want to know

about it right away. >> reporter: jennifer still doesn't have all the answers about how this happened to her family, but she's trying her best to protect others, test fig before the u.s. senate judiciary subcommittee hearing on a.i. and human rights this past june. >> it's every parent's worst nightmare to hear your child feeding in fear and pain, knowing they're being harmed and you're helpless. is this the future we're creating by enabling the abuses of artificial intelligence without consequence and without regulation? >> reporter: as for briana, she says the scam made her feel violated and finds she can't help but question her security online and off. >> as far as social media goes in the future, i obviously will not be posting any videos of my voice. >> what's your message to people your age after going through this ordeal? >> some people, especially my age, they may hear about this story and be like, well, that's just one person, is it really going to happen to me? i'm that one person in a million, but you know what?

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>> byron: 25 years ago, "sex and the city" revolutionized television, showing us how to live, love, and play. tonight, an encore presentation of diane wysaer's interview with sarah jessica parker about the show's legacy and the second season of the spinoff "and just like that." >> diane: "sex and the city." 25 years ago it was an earthquake, a caring roadmap for single women about being brave, messy choices, living with your mistakes. who would dream that the philosopher queen of being single would be the girl in the tutu. now here she comes in those eye-popping shoes walking down the street. 5'3" of power and a big laugh. when the show started, they blasted the rules about conservative clothes saying, women should wear what they want, clothes that say be yourself and go for it.

>> in terms of carrie, there were no rules. you wear what you like. you try to tell somebody who you are the minute you walk out the door. >> diane: did the clothes drive you crazy at some point? >> the fittings were often very long. five hours plus sauds s. >> but they were hugely joyous. >> diane: did you ever make a mistake? >> lots of mistakes. >> diane: if you could delete one? >> i sort of enjoyed the things people reacted strongly to. it never seemed to matter to her what people thought. what line is quoted most to me on the street from "sex and the city"? i'm going to say, but i will be probably wrong, is probably "hello, lover." >> hello, lover.

>> diane: those shoes. the ones that promise dreams you can't afford but bibuy anyway. it's hard not to see the shoes rooted in the dreams of a little girl named sarah jessica parker, who grew up on the financial edge. in a family of eight children, little money, on welfare, sometimes skipping christmas, lucky to get a nine-cent dress or a new pair of shoes. but that tiny girl would play a big role in supporting her family from the time she was 8 years old. because she had a big gift, and here she is, the lead in the musical that needs no introduction," annie." ♪ tomorrow tomorrow i love ya tomorrow ♪ ♪ you're always a day away ♪ >> what's your favorite thing in the whole world? >> rainbows.

i like rainbows a lot. and i like new york city. >> diane: and the memory of life on the financial edge doesn't go away. even though now think of shoes and she owns the store. >> hello! >> diane: hello, oh my goodness, this is beautiful. the fear that it will all vanish somehow? >> i think the fear that i won't have money always exists for me. i always think, i have to be earning money. >> diane: who knew a tv show with shocking talk about dating, secrets, sex, would live on, ensuring generation after generation would watch and talk about it too. she says the conversations about sex when you're single -- good sex, bad sex -- were always based on true women and what really happens. >> there was a rule in the writers' room on our show, has been from the beginning.

that if an experience didn't happen to one of the writers, if it wasn't a shared experience that was real, it could not be made up. and always saying it i it. >> i don't need a man. >> everyone needs a man, it's biological destiny. >> hello, do you want to be saying that? >> your relationship is my greatest fear realized. >> excuse me? >> i don't believe this. >> diane: so 25 years after "sex and the city" arrived, what questions are the now 50-year-olds and their new friends exploring about life, career, sex? what really makes you happy? what's the biggest question in your 50s? >> for carrie, it was, you know, a momentous event that changed the course of her life and how to be single again. >> what do i do now? >> oh, honey. oh, honey. >> diane: maybe when you're in your 50s it's time to take a look at the biggest mystery in

everyone's life. the most exciting, challenging, significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. >> yourself, yes. my father just passed. and my mother, she's alone for the first time in her entire life. and you cannot be prepared. loss is unique. grief is unique. loneliness is unique. independence is unique. >> diane: another treasure hunt in the new season, favorite faces coming back. kim cattrall is coming back for a scene? >> she is. >> diane: you're executive producer, so you were part of the decision-making? >> yes, definitely. i think a really nice idea to celebrate our 25th anniversary, to have this prize appearance -- we're all disappointed that it leaked. i mean, i feared it would, because it's kind of -- it was like a kernel on hot oil, you know?

it's like people have to turn the flame up or something. at least the content of it is still, thus far, a secret. >> diane: and even some of carrie's quirky old clothes will make subtle reappearances in the new season, reminding us that life is the tapestry you weave out of when you were a triumph and when you fell on your face. >> maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. without them what would shape our lives? >> diane: your life is in some ways more interesting on the scaffolding of your mistakes? >> i think so. do you think so? >> diane: i think so. fortunately, i have a huge scaffolding. >> you don't. i'd be happy if you could do this many. i think, you know, success is -- feels better. right? but the things that were painful, the things that were disappointing, the things that i did wrong, i always say it's like scar tissue. >> diane: the world would be a lot less funny without the stories we tell about our m

mist mistakes. nobody wants to hear the story of your grand success. well, i guess i just do want to hear yours. >> no, no. >> diane: a 58-year-old woman wondering, like all of us, what the next question will be. will there be sex in the city in your 70s? are you golden girls? >> do you know how young the golden girls were? they were younger than i am right now. ♪ traveled down the road and back again ♪ >> yet they were living in a retirement community. which i haven't really considered yet. i think we could, i think anybody could. i think anybody can do whatever they want. >> byron: our thanks to diane. coming up, volodymyr zelenskyy, a preview of abc's martha raddatz's new interview with the president of ukraine. to severe rheumatoid arthritis symptoms. with my psoriatic arthritis symptoms. but just ok isn't ok. and i was done settling.

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♪ >> byron: finally tonight, abc news chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz reporting on the war in ukraine. our preview of her one-on-one interview with president volodymyr zelenskyy. what he says is needed to defeat russia. >> what is your assessment of how of counteroffensive is going right now? >> translator: all of us, we want to do it faster. because every day means new losses of ukrainians. >> so has the foot-dragging from the allies or from the u.s. cost lives? >> translator: well, some

weapons would help, on the record, helps us save lives and we appreciate that. of course foot-dragging will lead to more lives lost. >> byron: you can see martha's entire interview with president zelenskyy sunday on "this week." that's "nightline" for this evening. catch our full episodes on hulu. we'll see you right back here same time tomorrow. thanks for the company, america. good night.