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Mr. Guo was defrauded by a friend's WeChat video and lost nearly one million yuan
There was news before: Mr. Guo, the owner of a technology company in Fuzhou City, was scammed by scammers through intelligent AI face changing and onomatopoeia technology, pretending to be his friend, and committed fraud against him, and Mr. Guo was deceived of 4.3 million yuan in 10 minutes.
It is understood that the victim Mr. Guo was defrauded by scammers as a friend during a WeChat video call, resulting in property losses of nearly one million yuan.
On the day of the incident, Mr. Guo received a WeChat video call from a friend claiming to be a friend, who claimed that a friend was bidding abroad and needed a deposit of 4.3 million yuan, and requested that the funds be transferred to Mr. Guo's company account. Because of his trust in his friend, Mr. Guo did not have much suspicion and quickly transferred 4.3 million yuan to the bank account provided by the other party.
However, Mr. Guo later became suspicious, and he called his friend to verify it, only to find out that he had become the victim of scammers. It turned out that the scammers stole the friend's WeChat password, directly used the friend's WeChat account to commit fraud, and used video chat to make Mr. Guo relax his vigilance, which was one of the important reasons why he was deceived.
Fortunately, after Mr. Guo called the police, the police acted quickly and activated the stop payment mechanism to successfully stop the payment and intercept most of the defrauded funds, but 931,600 yuan still failed to recover. At present, the police are making every effort to recover the defrauded funds to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the victims.
The police remind the general public to be vigilant, strengthen their awareness of cyber security, and not easily trust the requests of strangers, especially when sensitive operations such as fund transfers are involved, and must verify through multiple channels to avoid being deceived. If you find a suspicious situation, please report to the police in time to jointly maintain network security and social stability.
A worrying technology – AI face swapping and onomatopoeia.
In recent years, with the continuous development of artificial intelligence, AI face changing and onomatopoeia technology has become more and more mature. This technology can fake people's identities, making it easy for scammers to impersonate others. This practice has brought serious security risks to society and directly threatened the privacy and security of individuals.
Through AI face swapping technology, scammers can easily replace their own facial features with those of others, thus achieving the purpose of impersonating others. This allows them to falsify information, commit fraud, and even commit illegal acts such as theft.
This issue also highlights the improper use and abuse of AI technology, which has a serious impact on society. Therefore, we urgently need to strengthen the regulation and control of AI technology to prevent it from being exploited by criminals.
In addition to strengthening regulation, we also need to raise the public's security awareness and skills so as not to fall victim to scammers. People should always be vigilant and not easily believe messages and requests from strangers. If suspicious situations are found, they should be reported to the relevant departments in a timely manner.
The development of AI technology has brought many conveniences to our lives, but it has also brought security risks. Only by strengthening regulation and raising security awareness can we better address these challenges and ensure that our personal privacy and security are effectively protected.