In my mind it is defintely a male voice. Telling his victims he is a woman could be the very first con. If they believe it, it tells the scammer they are gullible. Like scam emails being obvious about being a scam so that if anyone seriously replies it must be a terribly gullible person … which makes a great victim.
It's not even close to socially acceptable to tell someone on the phone that they "sound like a man," or "sound like a woman." If they didn't believe you, you'd never find out.
Not only that, I think I can hear non-native English speaking twang as well...
Couldn't that be a computer generated voice?
I thought the impersonator's voice in the first video was male for sure. I had to go back and reread portions of the article to confirm that the impersonated person was female.
The first one, yes. Maybe.
The second British one definitely not. That accent was much better than the first. Incredibly talented scam artist.
I thought the same thing for the first video, but not the second one.