Hong Kong police demonstrate deepfake technology.
Recently, the Hong Kong police cracked a large-scale "online romance" scam syndicate, with victims including people from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore. The media has described this as the Hong Kong version of the Myanmar scam base "KK Park".
On the 14th, the police announced that this scam syndicate operated in an industrial building in Hung Hom, Kowloon, involving a fraud amount of 360 million Hong Kong dollars (199 million Malaysian Ringgit); the police arrested 27 young people, including the mastermind and 6 university students, and seized 41 computers and servers, as well as 137 mobile phones, among other items.
The police stated that this scam syndicate locally recruited university graduates majoring in digital media as "technology specialists", who, together with overseas fraudsters, established a fake cryptocurrency investment platform.
During the scam process, they first used artificial intelligence and other technological means to impersonate beautiful women, engaging in video conversations with the victims on social platforms. Once the victims were deeply convinced and developed into online lovers, they were deceived into investing in the fictitious cryptocurrency platform, thereby defrauding them of money.
The police investigation revealed that after all job seekers joined the group, the group would provide a series of resources and training, including distributing a mobile phone to each person, and providing training manuals that listed different types of victims' coping methods.
According to the announcement, this scam base has been operating for 1 year, with victims not only from Hong Kong but also from Taiwan, India, Singapore, and Malaysia.
