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an 82-year-old retired foreigner

more than $690,000 was defrauded

(about 4.95 million rmb) of life savings

this has to start with the "video ads" watched by the elderly

"ai musk" live broadcast. source: phoenix technology

criminals "cloned" tesla ceo musk through ai toolsin a video ad, "ai musk" promotes an investment opportunity with a quick return.the lip shape and voice are highly consistent with real people., and evenimitating musk's signature south african accent。

after watching the video, the old man believed it and contacted the foreign exchange company behind the advertisement to open an account. after several weeks of trading, the old man exhausted the funds in his retirement account.he invested more than 690,000 us dollars, but all the money was lost.

ai face-changing fraud

not only happens abroad

in recent years, many people in china have been defrauded by ai face-changing videos.

case 1: a 70-year-old man in guangzhou nearly lost 1 million yuan due to ai face-changing fraud

in early june 2023, gong bo from guangzhou received a call from his "son" who was doing business in another city, sayinghis business failed and he needed gong bo to transfer 1 million yuan to him for working capital.but i just lost my bank card and mobile phone, so i added gong bo as my friend on wechat., after which the "son" sent a wechat video asking for the money to be transferred to a friend's account.

gong bo then called his son's mobile phone but no one answered. however, he thought he had seen the wechat video, so he relaxed his vigilance. as he was too old to understand mobile phone transfers, he asked the bank staff how to do it.

out of caution, the bank staff suggested that gong bo call his son again to confirm.this time, the son finally answered the phone. during the call, the son denied that the business had failed, and did not ask gong bo to transfer money to him.the bank staff told gong bo that this was a new type of ai face-changing fraud and successfully dissuaded him from transferring the money.

case 2: a person lied that a friend borrowed his account and was defrauded of 4.3 million yuan in 10 minutes

in april 2023, mr. guo, the legal representative of a technology company in fuzhou, was defrauded of 4.3 million yuan in 10 minutes.

at the time of the incident, his friend contacted him via wechat video, saying that his friend was bidding in another place.need a deposit of 4.3 million yuan, want to borrow funds from mr. guo's company. based on the trust in friends, plusidentity verified via video chatwithin 10 minutes, mr. guo transferred 4.3 million yuan in two installments to the other party's bank account.afterwards, mr. guo found out he had been cheated after calling a friend.

how can ai face-changing be so realistic?

an anti-fraud public welfare short film allows people to intuitively feel how terrible it would be if ai technology was abused by criminals.