Description: In China, fraudsters bypassed facial-recognition security for online financial transactions on WeChat Pay by crafting identity-verification GIFs of victims from their selfies on WeChat Moments, a social media platform.
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Incident ID
224
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2020-07-01
Editors
Khoa Lam
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sixthtone.com · 2020
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Chat stickers have become an essential tool for communication in the digital age. Now, they’re also a tool for scammers.
Police in central China’s Hubei province have arrested three swindlers who used chat stickers, or GIFs, to verify peopl…
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