Reported AI-Cloned Voice Used to Deceive Hong Kong Bank Manager in Purported $35 Million Fraud Scheme
Date: 2020-01-15
Affected: Cybercriminals, Deepfake Technology Developers, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Transnational Fraud Ring
Attack vector: deepfake
Category: real-world
Severity: Critical

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #147: Reported AI-Cloned Voice Used to Deceive Hong Kong Bank Manager in Purported $35 Million Fraud Scheme. Alleged deployer/developer: Cybercriminals, Deepfake Technology Developers, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Transnational Fraud Ring. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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