Scams with artificial intelligence: video calls with trout voice and image

A Chinese businessman was scammed after a cybercriminal used artificial intelligence to impersonate from one of his relatives. Through deception, the scammer managed to steal from the victim a total of 4.3 million yuanabout 567 thousand euros or just over 600 thousand dollars.

As explained by the police authorities of the city of Fuzhou, southeast China, the author of the scam impersonated both the appearance and the voice of a close friend of the victim and contacted him through the app wechat, arguing that using to transfer the money from a bank account to pay the guarantee of a public tender in which he was interested in participating.

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“At that moment, I checked the face and voice of the video caller so I let my guard down“, explained the Chinese technological entrepreneur, surnamed Guo, in dialogue with Global times. fds

Immediately afterwards, Guo shared the bank account number with his supposed friend, who shared a screenshot that pretended to be a proof of payment in his name for the same amount of money that he had previously requested.

The businessman made the money transfer without verifying the income of the money that apparently his “friend” had passed him, since he trusted him. Later, he realized that he had been scammed after contacting his true relative by message and verifying that he was not aware of the transactions or the video call.

Guo alerted the police about what had happened and they proceeded to block the operation, managing to withhold a part of the total money transfer. Although the investigation into what happened continues, It has not yet been possible to find the identity of the scammeror the scammers in case you didn’t operate alone.

A similar case also occurred in China after a man received a supposedly a call from his wife asking for the sum equivalent to 3,600 euros arguing that he had suffered a road accident. However, the woman was not her partner, but a very good imitation of her gestures and her voice by Artificial Intelligence.

As explained The world, cyber criminals monitored the couple’s online activitythus obtaining captures of the woman’s face and voice from which they can substitute her identity with the help of state-of-the-art software.

The danger of Artificial Intelligence

The artificial intelligence has already been installed in society, and although it is a useful tool for a large number of tasks, such as text generation oh the image creation quickly and easily, it has also become a double-edged sword, being used to commit scams, especially based on identity theft.

In this sense, the agency Reuters He maintained that this type of deception is already common in China, which is why the authorities of the Asian country have begun to take measures in this regard, including the approval of a law regulating generative artificial intelligence technologies of texts, videos and images.

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In turn, similar cases have occurred in the United States and it is expected that they will quickly begin to be noticed throughout the world, facilitating operations for those who defraud people based on the impersonation and impersonation of people alleged to be the victims.

While technology is currently one step ahead of solutions, experts in dialogue with The confidential They have mentioned some methods that would allow avoiding this type of fraud:

1. Creation of cryptographic certification standards worldwide that allows to authenticate the content taken by digital cameras and microphones.
2. Throwing of Educational programs that educate individuals and help understand the capabilities and risks of artificial intelligence.
3. Collaboration between governments and the scientific community to design a legislation that protects individual rights of the users.

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