There Hardly Seems To Be A Week That Goes By,

without me receiving a scam call on either my landline or mobile telephone,

image of a fictional character by Stable Diffusion, but this group of scammers have taken Deepfake technology to a new level, fraudsters initially targeted one of the unnamed company’s finance workers with an email from the company’s UK-based chief financial officer (CFO). Seeing that the message involved a ‘secret transaction’ to the tune of $200 million Hong Kong dollars, at today's rate £20,083,565.89 or $25,570,706.20, the man suspected it was a phishing email, but those doubts were put to rest when he was invited to a video conference with the CFO and several other colleagues he recognized, so that was alright then, relieved that he was acting at the request of his CFO, the finance worker transferred over £20 million into the scammers’ account and went about his business, “They used deepfake technology to imitate the voice of their targets reading from a script,” senior superintendent Baron Chan Shun-ching said, adding that his department was highlighting this case because it was the first one in Hong Kong where the victim was tricked during a “multi-person video conference”, looking at the sum involved I can see why scammers do this type of thing, all I can say is 'be careful when you receive a unexpected phone call or offer to meet the boss on a video link!'.