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<section begin=2021 digital sound-alike enabled fraud />The 2nd publicly known fraud done with a digital sound-alike<ref group="1st seen in" name="2021 digital sound-alike fraud case">https://www.reddit.com/r/VocalSynthesis/</ref> took place on Friday 2021-01-15. A bank in Hong Kong was manipulated to wire money to numerous bank accounts by using a voice stolen from one of the their client company's directors. They managed to defraud $35 million of the U.A.E. based company's money.<ref name="Forbes reporting on 2021 digital sound-alike fraud">https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/10/14/huge-bank-fraud-uses-deep-fake-voice-tech-to-steal-millions/</ref>. This case came into light when Forbes saw [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21085009-hackers-use-deep-voice-tech-in-400k-theft a document] where the U.A.E. financial authorities were seeking administrative assistance from the US authorities towards the end of recovering a small portion of the defrauded money that had been sent to bank accounts in the USA.<ref name="Forbes reporting on 2021 digital sound-alike fraud" />