The technology deepfake It is a tool used by scammers to compromise the security and finances of companies, as revealed by a case registered a few days ago in Hong Kong, where a man was deceived through a video call, in which He thought he was talking to the company's financial director who asked him to make a series of transfers. Everything turned out to be a scam for more than US$25,000,000.
According to the Hong Kong police, The man first received an email signed by the company's CFO, whose headquarters are in the United Kingdom. The worker was first suspicious of the letter that talked about carrying out a “secret transaction” and thought it could be a case of phishingwhich is when a criminal impersonates someone else to get information revealed or some action taken.
However, when he was summoned to a video call, his doubts were dispelled. The worker entered the meeting remotely and recognized other company employees, although he did not interact with them. In the call, The executive received instructions from the financial director to make fifteen different transfersfor 200,000,000 Hong Kong dollars, which is equivalent to US$25,569,600.
They scammed him out of millions of dollars using deepfake technology
A week after the meeting, The executive contacted the company headquarters to verify that everything had been done as indicated by the financial director. It was at that moment that They discovered that it was an electronic scam and that the worker had been the victim of a false call.
The cyber fraud cost the company around US$25,569,600.
To create the image of the company's financial director and other workers, the criminals used public images and videoswhich they found on the internet, and They manipulated them through artificial intelligence to create images that imitated their appearance. “In the video conference of several people, it turns out that everyone he saw was fake,” senior superintendent Baron Chan Shun-ching told the city's public broadcaster. RTHKreports cnn.
Although The Hong Kong police have not revealed the identity of the worker or the scammed company.has said that investigations continue and that they have followed up on several cases of this type of crime, in which criminals use deepfakes or AI to fool facial recognition programs.
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