{"id":61679,"date":"2024-02-06T01:46:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T16:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/05\/hong-kong-company-deepfake-video-conference-call-scam"},"modified":"2024-02-06T01:46:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T16:46:23","slug":"company-worker-in-hong-kong-pays-out-20m-in-deepfake-video-call-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61679","title":{"rendered":"Company worker in Hong Kong pays out \u00a320m in deepfake video call scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police investigate after employee says she was tricked into sending money to fraudsters posing as senior officers at her firm<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong police have launched an investigation after an employee at an unnamed company claimed she was duped into paying HK$200m (\u00a320m) of her firm\u2019s money to fraudsters in a deepfake video conference call.<\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong police force said it had received a report from a worker that she had been tricked into transferring the money by someone \u201cposing as senior officers of the company\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/05\/hong-kong-company-deepfake-video-conference-call-scam\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police investigate after employee says she was tricked into sending money to fraudsters posing as senior officers at her firmHong Kong police have launched an investigation after an employee at an unnamed company claimed she was duped into paying HK$20&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,987,3057,48,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-cybercrime","category-deepfake","category-hong-kong","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61680,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61679\/revisions\/61680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}