Deepfake scams have gone from niche to industrial; one finance officer paid out nearly $500,000 on a fake video call with “company leadership”

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• nulluser@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Last year, a finance officer at a Singaporean multinational paid out nearly $500,000 to scammers during what he believed was a video call with company leadership.

  My bet is that that is just his very plausible cover story. He’s the one that got the money.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sadly it’s a combination of tech illiteracy and a culture of not questioning your boss.

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  • scytale@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Similar thing happened to a Hong Kong company. It’s likely these are just tech illiterate people who were unfortunately duped.

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• magnetosphere@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It would be better if this didn’t happen at all, but I’d rather see headlines like this than some retiree getting scammed out of their life savings.

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