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‘Everyone looked real’: multinational firm’s #HongKong office loses HK$200 million after scammers stage #deepfake #video #meeting

source: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3250851/everyone-looked-real-multinational-firms-hong-kong-office-loses-hk200-million-after-scammers-stage

Everyone present on the video calls except the victim was a fake representation of real people. The scammers applied deepfake technology to turn publicly available video and other footage into convincing versions of the meeting’s participants.

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HK$200 million lost in deepfake conference call scam in Hong Kong first

Police sound alarm after employee tricked by digital recreation of company’s finance chief and others in video call.

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