2.45 million scams in 9 seconds! Another "AI face changing" scam! How to prevent it?

Tech 2023-05-26 00:37:53 Source: Network

Edited by: Zhang JinheAfter the previous incident of "being cheated of 4.3 million yuan by AI face changing within 10 minutes" sparked attention, another AI face changing fraud incident that occurred in April on May 25th was exposed by the media

Edited by: Zhang Jinhe

After the previous incident of "being cheated of 4.3 million yuan by AI face changing within 10 minutes" sparked attention, another AI face changing fraud incident that occurred in April on May 25th was exposed by the media. The amount reached 2.45 million this time, and the entire fraud process took even shorter time, only 9 seconds.

On May 24th, the China Internet Association issued a notice reminding criminals to use AI technology to fake the voice of specific characters through voice synthesis, change faces through AI, disguise as specific characters, and make real-time video calls with others. The facial expressions after replacement are natural and can impersonate others to contact the victim, gain the victim's trust, and then commit fraud.In the face of new scams using AI technology, the general public needs to be vigilant and strengthen prevention!

Another AI face changing scam: A man in Anhui was scammed 2.45 million yuan in 9 seconds

Da Wan News reported that in April this year, a fraud case of "impersonating an acquaintance" occurred in Anqing Economic and Technological Development Zone. Police from the Anti Fraud Center of the Economic and Technological Development Public Security Bureau investigated and found that the fraudster used a 9-second intelligent AI face changing video to pretend to be an "acquaintance", causing the victim to relax their vigilance and carry out the fraud.

I saw his face in the video, but it hung up in a few seconds, saying it was inconvenient during the meeting. On April 27th, Mr. He's WeChat "friend" suddenly initiated a video call to him. After the call was connected, Mr. He saw that the "friend" was in a conference room. Just as he was about to inquire further, the "friend" hung up the phone and said that there was an important matter to explain during the meeting, and Mr. He needed to add QQ communication.

Subsequently, "friend" told Mr. He on QQ that there is currently a project bidding that requires working capital, and he hopes that Mr. He can help advance the payment first.Because he made a video call and became an acquaintance, "and" I didn't think much, so I transferred the money. "Based on his trust in the" acquaintance, "Mr. He didn't hesitate and immediately asked his family to transfer 2.45 million yuan to the other party's designated account. It wasn't until he later called the other party that he learned of being scammed.

After receiving the report, Anqing Economic and Technological Development Public Security Branch immediately transferred a capable police force to form a special team to query and track the fund flow and information flow of the account involved at the first time. After mastering a large number of clues, the special police rushed to other provinces and cities overnight, arrested three suspect including Li on the afternoon of April 28, and detained 26 mobile phones involved in the case,Freeze and recover more than one million yuan of funds for electronic fraud.

After investigation, it was found that Li and three others, knowingly seeking illegal benefits, assisted upstream criminals in transferring nearly one million yuan of funds through various means, knowing that the funds were illegal proceeds of upstream crimes. They were suspected of concealing or concealing the proceeds of crime. On May 22nd, the investigation team communicated with relevant departments multiple times in order to return the deceived funds as soon as possible,The police will return the 1.32 million yuan fraudulently recovered to Mr. He.

Baotou, Inner Mongolia: Technology company owner cheated of 4.3 million yuan in 10 minutes

According to the official WeChat account of Ping An Baotou on May 20th, on May 8th, the Telecommunications Network Crime Investigation Bureau of Baotou Public Security Bureau released a case of using intelligent AI technology for telecommunications fraud.

Around 11:40 on April 20thA friend of Mr. Guo, the legal representative of a technology company in Fuzhou, suddenly contacted him through WeChat video. After a brief chat, the friend told Mr. Guo that his friend was bidding from another city and needed a deposit of 4.3 million yuan, and that he needed to transfer funds from a company account. Therefore, he wanted to borrow Mr. Guo's company account to transfer funds. My friend asked Mr. Guo for his bank card number, claiming that he had already transferred the money to his account. He also sent a screenshot of the bank transfer receipt to Mr. Guo through WeChat. Based on the trust of video chat, Mr. Guo did not verify whether the money had been credited,At 11:49, I transferred 4.3 million yuan to the other party in two separate transactions

Mr. Guo called his friend's phone number and the other person said it was not the case. Only then did he realize that he had encountered a "high-end" scam, where the other person used intelligent AI face changing technology to pretend to be a friend and carried out fraud on him.

From beginning to end, he didn't mention borrowing money from me, so he said he would call me first and then ask me to transfer it to his friend's account. He also played a video for me, and I confirmed my face and voice in the video, so I relaxed my guard, "Mr. Guo said.

At 12:21 on April 20th, the Baotou Telecom Network Crime Investigation Bureau received an external cooperation request from the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Fuzhou Public Security Bureau in Fujian Province, stating that the head of a well-known private enterprise in Fujian Province had been cheated of 4.3 million yuan, and the bank card involved was a public account of Baotou Mengshang Bank. We hope that the Baotou police can help to urgently stop the payment.

The Telecommunications Network Crime Investigation Bureau of Baotou Public Security Bureau immediately launched the "Baotou City Police Bank Linkage Green Query Mechanism", and the police on duty completed the verification and approval procedures as quickly as possible, and reported the information of the involved card to the relevant departments of Mongolian Commercial Bank as soon as possible.With the full assistance of the bank, in just 10 minutes, 3.3684 million yuan of scammed funds in the fraudulent account were successfully intercepted.

At the same time, information on the outflow of remaining funds of 931600 yuan was provided to the Fuzhou Public Security Bureau police, providing a breakthrough direction for further investigation of the remaining funds in the case. At present, the Fujian police and the Baotou police are fully pursuing the funds.

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How to prevent AI fraud

So, is there no way to deal with AI face changing scams?

In the AI era, seeing and hearing are not necessarily true, greatly enhancing confusion. By using AI technology, combined with routines and script interpretation, such scams require players to hold onto.

Fraud is one foot higher than magic, and prevention is one foot higher than morality.

Daily Economic News Comprehensive: Da Wan News, Ping An Baotou Official WeChat, Xinhua News

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