The lawsuit sparked a huge discussion on the microblogging site Weibo about the privacy threat in China.
Reuters wrote that Chinese law enforcement said that a businessman in Baotou, a city in Inner Mongolia, was the victim of a deep scam. The scammer removed the face of a friend of the victim from the photo and persuaded him to “immediately transfer $622,000 to him as collateral for futures” via video link. An unsuspecting businessman decided to help a friend and transferred the desired amount.
The man realized that he had been defrauded, but when his acquaintance did not demand any money for the transfer. And although the police managed to return most of the stolen goods, the scammer managed to partially make money from the fool.
The case sparked a heated discussion on Weibo, China’s most popular microblogging site, about the threat to online privacy and security. The hashtag “AI scam is spreading nationwide” has already been viewed more than 120 million times.
Users expressed the view that photos, audio and video could easily be at the disposal of scammers and that information security rules could barely keep up with the technologies already in use today.
And although China has already tightened control over such technologies with the rise of AI fraud, people on social networks do not believe that such incidents will not become widespread in the future.
Previously Focus He said that a man hid $500,000 in bitcoins from his wife during the divorce so that he wouldn’t share them.
Source: Focus
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