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Fabricated Voice Used in Financial Fraud

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This seems to be an identity theft first:

Criminals used artificial intelligence-based software to impersonate a chief executive’s voice and demand a fraudulent transfer of €220,000 ($243,000) in March in what cybercrime experts described as an unusual case of artificial intelligence being used in hacking.

Another news article.

Tags: AI, cybercrime, fraud, identity theft, impersonation

Posted on September 12, 2019 at 6:04 AM15 Comments

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