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Video call technology

Incidents implicated systems

Incident 63430 Report
Alleged Deepfake CFO Scam Reportedly Costs Multinational Engineering Firm Arup $25 Million

2024-02-02

A finance employee at the multinational engineering firm Arup was reportedly deceived into transferring $25 million by fraudsters using purported deepfake technology to impersonate the firm's CFO in a video call, according to the Hong Kong police.

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Incident 14213 Report
Purported Deepfake Applicant Reportedly Impersonated Tokyo IT Executive Kenbun Yoshii During Online Job Interview

2026-03-19

In Tokyo, a Japanese IT company reportedly interviewed a job applicant who used purportedly AI-generated video manipulation to impersonate real IT executive Kenbun Yoshii during a remote hiring interview. Investigators cited visual and audio irregularities suggesting a deepfake, and Yoshii said his publicly available images and career details appeared to have been misused.

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Related Entities
Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 634
    30 Reports

    Alleged Deepfake CFO Scam Reportedly Costs Multinational Engineering Firm Arup $25 Million

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Voice cloning technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 634
    30 Reports

    Alleged Deepfake CFO Scam Reportedly Costs Multinational Engineering Firm Arup $25 Million

  • Incident 1421
    3 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Applicant Reportedly Impersonated Tokyo IT Executive Kenbun Yoshii During Online Job Interview

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1421
    3 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Applicant Reportedly Impersonated Tokyo IT Executive Kenbun Yoshii During Online Job Interview

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Deepfake technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 634
    30 Reports

    Alleged Deepfake CFO Scam Reportedly Costs Multinational Engineering Firm Arup $25 Million

  • Incident 1421
    3 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Applicant Reportedly Impersonated Tokyo IT Executive Kenbun Yoshii During Online Job Interview

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1421
    3 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Applicant Reportedly Impersonated Tokyo IT Executive Kenbun Yoshii During Online Job Interview

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Unnamed finance employee

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 634
    30 Reports

    Alleged Deepfake CFO Scam Reportedly Costs Multinational Engineering Firm Arup $25 Million

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Entity

Arup

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 634
    30 Reports

    Alleged Deepfake CFO Scam Reportedly Costs Multinational Engineering Firm Arup $25 Million

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Entity

Deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 634
    30 Reports

    Alleged Deepfake CFO Scam Reportedly Costs Multinational Engineering Firm Arup $25 Million

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Entity

Voice cloning technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 634
    30 Reports

    Alleged Deepfake CFO Scam Reportedly Costs Multinational Engineering Firm Arup $25 Million

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Entity

Unknown fake job applicant(s)

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1421
    3 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Applicant Reportedly Impersonated Tokyo IT Executive Kenbun Yoshii During Online Job Interview

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Entity

Kenbun Yoshii

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1421
    3 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Applicant Reportedly Impersonated Tokyo IT Executive Kenbun Yoshii During Online Job Interview

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Entity

Japanese IT company recruiter(s)

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1421
    3 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Applicant Reportedly Impersonated Tokyo IT Executive Kenbun Yoshii During Online Job Interview

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Entity

Unnamed Japanese company

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1421
    3 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Applicant Reportedly Impersonated Tokyo IT Executive Kenbun Yoshii During Online Job Interview

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Entity

Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1421
    3 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Applicant Reportedly Impersonated Tokyo IT Executive Kenbun Yoshii During Online Job Interview

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National security and intelligence stakeholders

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1421
    3 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Applicant Reportedly Impersonated Tokyo IT Executive Kenbun Yoshii During Online Job Interview

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