Post by M. Hawbaker on Feb 5, 2024 14:03:24 GMT
A finance worker was tricked into paying £20m to scammers by a “deepfake” video call featuring AI copies of his co-workers, police in Hong Kong have said.
The employee transferred the money to the criminals after they used artificial intelligence software to imitate the worker’s superiors, including his UK-based chief financial officer.
Everybody on the video call apart from the victim was a fake representation of a real person, police said.
The case is believed to be one of the largest financial scams to date featuring deepfake technology, in which AI is used to imitate real people.
The company and the individual affected have not been named.
Hong Kong police said they were making the case public because it was the first of its kind involving multiple fake people on a call.
“This time, in a multi-person video conference, it turns out that everyone you see is fake,” acting senior superintendent Baron Chan Shun-ching said, according to the South China Morning Post.
The employee, who transferred $HK 200m (£20.3m) in 15 transactions involving five bank accounts, was suspicious when he received an email purporting to be from his chief financial officer, police said.
However, he was convinced to send the money after apparently verifying the request on the video call.
finance.yahoo.com/news/deepfake-video-call-tricks-finance-095225670.html
The employee transferred the money to the criminals after they used artificial intelligence software to imitate the worker’s superiors, including his UK-based chief financial officer.
Everybody on the video call apart from the victim was a fake representation of a real person, police said.
The case is believed to be one of the largest financial scams to date featuring deepfake technology, in which AI is used to imitate real people.
The company and the individual affected have not been named.
Hong Kong police said they were making the case public because it was the first of its kind involving multiple fake people on a call.
“This time, in a multi-person video conference, it turns out that everyone you see is fake,” acting senior superintendent Baron Chan Shun-ching said, according to the South China Morning Post.
The employee, who transferred $HK 200m (£20.3m) in 15 transactions involving five bank accounts, was suspicious when he received an email purporting to be from his chief financial officer, police said.
However, he was convinced to send the money after apparently verifying the request on the video call.
finance.yahoo.com/news/deepfake-video-call-tricks-finance-095225670.html
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