{"id":3210,"date":"2024-02-10T06:52:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T06:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2024-02-10T07:40:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T07:40:26","slug":"daily-news-updates-february-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/awareness\/daily-news-updates-february-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Updates &#8211; February 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scam News 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AI Fraudster Executes $25 Million Theft Using Deepfake Conference Call<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While concerns about artificial intelligence achieving sentience and dominating humanity are valid, its current threat lies in malicious hands. Recently, a thief exploited deepfake technology to pilfer $25.6 million from a multinational company&#8217;s Hong Kong branch via a fake video conference call. Using AI-generated videos, the scammer duped an employee into transferring funds by impersonating the CFO and colleagues. The ongoing investigation underscores the urgency of vigilance against evolving scams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scam News 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Protect Yourself from Skype Scams: Avoiding Impersonation by Fraudulent Police Officers<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Fraudulent-Police-Officers.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Fraudulent-Police-Officers.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3278\" style=\"width:261px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Fraudulent-Police-Officers.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Fraudulent-Police-Officers-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Fraudulent-Police-Officers-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Fraudulent-Police-Officers-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Mumbai-based Kinjal Shah received an automated call warning her of deactivation within two hours, guiding her to press &#8216;9&#8217; to file a complaint. Later, she was coerced into a video call to address an alleged FIR against her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Suspecting a scam, she realized the caller was impersonating a police officer. Such &#8216;virtual badge&#8217; Skype scams involve fake law enforcement contacting individuals, claiming they&#8217;re implicated in a crime. Look out for suspicious signs like prolonged calls, discouragement from visiting police stations, and absence of genuine police protocol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scam News 1 AI Fraudster Executes $25 Million Theft Using Deepfake Conference Call While concerns about artificial intelligence achieving sentience and dominating humanity are valid, its current threat lies in malicious hands. Recently, a thief exploited deepfake technology to pilfer $25.6 million from a multinational company&#8217;s Hong Kong branch via a fake video conference call. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3279,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions\/3279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}