Incident 509: Scammers Deepfaked Videos of Victims' Loved Ones Asking for Funds over Facebook in Vietnam
Description: In Vietnam, to convince victims of their disguises when prompted, scammers deepfaked audios and videos of victims' friends and families asking them over Facebook to send over thousands of dollars.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: unknown developed an AI system deployed by scammers, which harmed Vietnamese Facebook users.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
509
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2023-03-23
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
dttc.sggp.org.vn · 2023
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(DTTCO) - After the scam by text messages thanks to money transfer, now scammers quickly apply other more sophisticated tactics, through fake video calls thanks to Deepfake technology.
Fool users
After nearly a week of being cheated of near…
vietnamnet.vn · 2023
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After being detected with tricks of sending messages to appropriate money, scammers are now using an even more sophisticated tool called Deepfake to make fake video calls to victims and ask for money transfer.
Nearly a week after discoverin…
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