Ledger / Jan 2024
Arup employee tricked by deepfake video call into $25M transfers
Confirmed
Arup confirmed it was the victim of the deepfake scam reported by Hong Kong police.
A finance employee joined a video call in which the apparent CFO and colleagues were deepfakes and followed instructions to make multiple transfers. Hong Kong police disclosed the case in Feb 2024; CNN named Arup as the victim in May 2024.
“Arup revealed as victim of $25 million deepfake scam involving Hong Kong employee”CNN Business
Sources
- Arup revealed as victim of $25 million deepfake scam involving Hong Kong employeeCNN Business · 16 May 2024 · secondary source
- Date
- Jan 2024
- Disclosed
- 16 May 2024
- Actor
- unknown (criminal), as attributed by CNN Business
- Targets
- Arup (engineering), Hong Kong office
- What the AI did
- Deepfake, Fraud, Social engineering
- Model
- unspecified voice-clone/deepfake tool
- Model family
- Deepfake / voice
- Model basis
- unknown
- Autonomy
- assist
- Outcome
- About US$25M (HK$200M) sent in 15 transfers to fraudsters' accounts.