The company's top managers came to fake and transferred $ 25 million

They were deceived during a video call with a fictional authorities from the UK. It asked about the "secret operation"

The Hong Kong Police is investigating the case of fraud in a branch of one of the transnational corporations. Its employees transferred $ 25.6 million according to the requirements of the "leadership", for which scammers gave themselves out with the help of dipfaces. They used the substitution of faces and votes in video calls. We tell you that this is known.

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The transnational company, the name of which is not specified, lost $ 25.6 million after the scammers deceived the employee of her branch in Hong Kong using the diphthack technology , reports South China Morning Post with reference to the local police.

On January 29, an employee of the financial department of the injured company filed an application with the police. In mid -January, she received a message allegedly from the financial director of the company from the UK. The Director reported that she needed to conduct a secret transaction. After that, she was invited to a group video conference, where she saw the very financial director of the company from the UK and other employees of the company. The managers who participated in the conversation looked and said like real people - some of them were familiar with this employee.

During the video conference, scammers asked the victim to introduce themselves, but did not ask anything else. Images on the screen only gave several orders before the meeting suddenly ended.

As it turned out, all those present on video calls, except for a victim’s employee, were false images of real people. Fraudsters used publicly available video materials on YouTube to create convincing versions of other participants in the meeting, the publication of Hong Kong Free Press said .

Further, the victim followed the instructions received during the meeting, and made 15 transfers totaling 200 million Hong Kong dollars (25.6 million US dollars) for five bank accounts in Hong Kong. From receiving a physical invitation to the moment when the employee realized that this was fraud, a week passed.

The police said that scammers also turned to another branch employee using the same video call tactics. The police have not yet disclosed other details of the case, maintaining the secret of the investigation before the arrest of the suspects.

The Hong Kong police recalled that there are several ways to check whether a person who appeared on the screen is a fake. You can ask the interlocutor to move their heads or ask questions to confirm the authenticity of the substitute. And any request to transfer money somewhere should cause suspicion.