🚨 Hong Kong police uncovered a shocking Deepfake love scam involving $46 million! This is not just a simple scam, but a carefully planned crime using high-tech means.
How does this scam gang operate? They first contact potential victims through social media, and then use artificial intelligence technology to send artificially generated photos of beautiful women, which are carefully designed in terms of appearance, personality, occupation and education to attract victims. When the victim requests a video call, the scammer uses deep fake technology to change their appearance and voice to make the victim completely trust them.
Once the victim falls into this fake relationship, the scammer will induce them to invest in a seemingly legitimate cryptocurrency platform. But this platform is actually a fake platform built by digital media and technology experts recruited by the criminal gang, with the purpose of defrauding the victim's investment.
In a raid on October 9, Hong Kong police busted the scam center in Hung Hom and arrested 27 suspects, including 21 men and 6 women aged between 21 and 34. The police seized computers, mobile phones, luxury watches and about $25,750 in suspected criminal proceeds at the scene.
It is reported that this scam center is very well organized and extremely large in scale. They even produced Chinese and English training manuals to guide scammers on how to create false romances and how to manipulate targets to defraud money. Police said that most of the arrested were men, many of whom were from mainland China, Taiwan, India and Singapore.
Finally, this case also sounded a wake-up call for us! That is, in the online world, we must always be vigilant, especially when it comes to money and feelings. Don't easily trust strangers on the Internet, especially when they ask you to invest money. Be sure to conduct sufficient investigation and verification to avoid becoming a victim of this kind of high-tech fraud.
