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Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ | CNN (edition.cnn.com)

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Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ | CNN::A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call, according to Hong Kong police.

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[–] nulluser@programming.dev 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (9 children)

I'm highly doubtful that scammers could get enough real video of multiple employees in the same company to train an AI to pull this off convincingly. Celebrities, yes. Regular people, no

However, Occam's Razor tells me this employee knows exactly where that money went and plans to quietly slip away to a tropical island to retire, after getting fired for being "gullible."

[–] JoBo@feddit.uk 4 points 9 months ago

I spend hours and hours a week in video meetings. If the scammers had access to the footage, it's easily done. Easier, even, given that all the available footage would be from the right context.

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