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|quote=According to a new report in The Wall Street Journal, the CEO of an unnamed UK-based energy firm believed he was on the phone with his boss, the chief executive of firm’s the German parent company, when he followed the orders to immediately transfer €220,000 (approx. $243,000) to the bank account of a Hungarian supplier. In fact, the voice belonged to a fraudster using AI voice technology to spoof the German chief executive. Rüdiger Kirsch of Euler Hermes Group SA, the firm’s insurance company, shared the information with WSJ.}} | |quote=According to a new report in The Wall Street Journal, the CEO of an unnamed UK-based energy firm believed he was on the phone with his boss, the chief executive of firm’s the German parent company, when he followed the orders to immediately transfer €220,000 (approx. $243,000) to the bank account of a Hungarian supplier. In fact, the voice belonged to a fraudster using AI voice technology to spoof the German chief executive. Rüdiger Kirsch of Euler Hermes Group SA, the firm’s insurance company, shared the information with WSJ.}} | ||
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==== 2020 digital sound-alike fraud attempt ==== | |||
In June 2020 fraud was attempted with a poor quality pre-recorded digital sound-alike with delivery method was voicemail. The recipient in a tech company didn't believe the voicemail to be real and alerted the company and they realized that someone tried to scam them. The company called in Nisos to investigate the issue. Nisos analyzed the evidence and they were certain it was a fake, but had aspects of a cut-and-paste job to it. Nisos prepared [https://www.nisos.com/blog/synthetic-audio-deepfake/ a report titled '''''"The Rise of Synthetic Audio Deepfakes"''''' at nisos.com] on the issue and shared it with Motherboard, part of [[w:Vice (magazine)]] prior to its release.<ref name="Vice reporting on 2020 digital sound-alike fraud attempt"> | |||
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|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkyqvb/deepfake-audio-impersonating-ceo-fraud-attempt | |||
|title=Listen to This Deepfake Audio Impersonating a CEO in Brazen Fraud Attempt | |||
|last=Franceschi-Bicchierai | |||
|first=Lorenzo | |||
|date=2020-07-23 | |||
|website=[[w:Vice.com]] | |||
|publisher=[[w:Vice (magazine)]] | |||
|access-date=2022-01-03 | |||
|quote=}} | |||
</ref> | </ref> | ||