Deepfake’s fraud distorting the reality itself

Imagine you are meeting A new person. Whether it is on the application of dating or social media, it will be an opportunity across each other via the Internet and speaking. It is real and can be linked, so you can quickly remove it from DMS to a platform like Telegram or WhatsApp. You can share photos and even video call every time. It begins with comfort. Then, suddenly, they bring money.

They need you to cover the cost of Wi-Fi, perhaps. Or they are trying to get out of this new cryptocurrency. You should enter early! After that, only after it is too late, you realize that the person you were talking about was not at all.

In the real time, they were Deepfake, which was created from artificial intelligence hiding the face of a person running a fraud.

This scenario might seem to be well Countless people already. With the high capabilities of the IQ over the past few years, fraudulents can now create fake faces and fake sounds to hide them in the actual time. Experts warn that these deep people can search a variety of online fraud, from romance to employment to tax fraud.

David Maimon, head of fraud in the Centilinic Criminal Criminal Verification Company at Georgia State University, is the development of romantic fraud from artificial intelligence and other types of artificial intelligence fraud over the past six years. “We are witnessing a huge increase in the size of Deepfakes, especially compared to 2023 and 2024,” says Maimon.

“It was not much. We are talking about perhaps four or five a month,” he says. “Now, we see hundreds of these on a monthly basis in all areas, which is confusing the mind.”

Deepfakes are already used in a variety of online fraud. One financial worker in Hong Kong, for example, Pay 25 million dollars To a deception pretends as the company’s financial manager in a deep video call. Some of the fraudsters have even been published Educational videos On YouTube, which has the evacuation of responsibility as “pranks and educational purposes only”. These videos usually open with a romantic fraud, as a handsome young man who was created from artificial intelligence speaks to an older woman.

He became more traditional-like a video presented in advance of celebrities or politicians, rather than being a living, more widespread fake. Last year, retired in New Zealand It lost about 133,000 dollars To the process of investing an investment in the cryptocurrency after a vision of a Facebook advertisement that includes a large group of Prime Minister in the country that encourages people to buy.

Memon says that Sentilink has started seeing Deepfakes used to create bank accounts to rent an apartment or engage in tax recovery fraud. An increasing number of companies also watched Deepfakes in video interviews.

“Anything that requires people to be connected to the Internet and which supports the opportunity to switch faces with someone – will be available and open to fraud to benefit from it,” says Maimon.