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State-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) are capable of scoring highly on proficiency benchmarks, and as a result have been deployed across industries to increase productivity and convenience. However, the prolific nature of such tools has provided threat actors with the ability to leverage them for attack development. Our paper describes the current state of LLMs, their availability, and their role in benevolent and malicious applications. In addition, we propose how an LLM can be combined with text-to-speech (TTS) voice cloning to create a framework capable of carrying out social engineering attacks. Our case study analyzes the realism of two different open-source TTS models, Tortoise TTS and Coqui XTTS-v2, by calculating similarity scores between generated and real audio samples from four participants. Our results demonstrate that Tortoise is able to generate realistic voice clone audios for native English speaking males, which indicates that easily accessible resources can be leveraged to create deceptive social engineering attacks. 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