UK engineering firm Arup falls victim to £20m deepfake scam
by Dan Milmo from Technology | The Guardian on (#6MWHC)
Hong Kong employee was duped into sending cash to criminals by AI-generated video call
The British engineering company Arup has confirmed it was the victim of a deepfake fraud after an employee was duped into sending HK$200m (20m) to criminals by an artificial intelligence-generated video call.
Hong Kong police said in February that a worker at a then-unnamed company had been tricked into transferring vast sums by people on a hoax call posing as senior officers of the company".
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