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05-02-2024, 11:18 AM
Hong Kong police senior superintendent Baron Chan said that aside from the employee that was duped, every colleague in the video call was “fake”.
The scammers had used publicly available footage to digitally recreate each individual.
The employee, who works in the finance department, had received a message in January – from someone who appeared to be the company’s Britain-based CFO – asking for a transaction to be made.
Although the employee was initially doubtful, Chan said the victim was fooled after being invited to the video conference call and seeing the company’s CFO and other “employees” in attendance.
The employee complied with instructions given during the meeting, and transferred around HK$200 million to five bank accounts, spread across 15 transactions.
https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/ase...ake-of-cfo
The scammers had used publicly available footage to digitally recreate each individual.
The employee, who works in the finance department, had received a message in January – from someone who appeared to be the company’s Britain-based CFO – asking for a transaction to be made.
Although the employee was initially doubtful, Chan said the victim was fooled after being invited to the video conference call and seeing the company’s CFO and other “employees” in attendance.
The employee complied with instructions given during the meeting, and transferred around HK$200 million to five bank accounts, spread across 15 transactions.
https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/ase...ake-of-cfo
