I didn't downvote you, but I suspect you're getting downvoted because your recommendations wouldn't address the actual threat described in the article. This is the process the scam likely used:

1. Dial random phone numbers.

2. When someone answers, play a recording saying "we've kidnapped your daughter."

3. If a live human voice responds, transfer to a live operator who plays a muffled, staged recording of a panicked generic-sounding female voice.

4. Continue standard pig-butchering script.

I doubt the caller ever said the daughter's name. I don't think AI voice cloning was used. These kind of criminals know how to prey on people's instincts. It's not by compiling databases of accurate personal information. It's by scaring people with emotional, exigent, and plausible circumstances.

Even if 999 of 1,000 these calls are not to English-speaking people with a daughter who kind of sounds like the voice on the recording, the 1,000th is profitable enough for the scheme to continue.