The world's first AI fraud case, the British company lost 1.7 million, and AI plus face-changing technology will become an absolute fraud artifact?

According to the "Daily Mail" reported on September 6, in March this year, a fraudster used AI voice imitation software to impersonate the big boss of the company and successfully persuaded the CEO of a British energy company to call the boss of the German parent company.

On the phone, the fraudster asked the CEO to immediately transfer 220,000 euros to the bank account of a Hungarian supplier to avoid paying the "late fee" and sent the transfer information by mail, which the executive did without hesitation.

In the end, this 220,000 euros is gone forever. ...

According to Washington post, the CEO later pointed out in an email that the request was quite "strange", but the German accent of "Big Boss" was so lifelike that he felt that he had no choice but to obey.

AI can not only imitate other people's pronunciation and intonation, but also imitate English with German accent.

Some researchers said that this is the first publicly reported artificial intelligence fraud case in the world. This has once again triggered people's concerns about the use of artificial intelligence software in crime.

The speed of technological progress and popularization has been far ahead of ordinary people's cognition. Today, when the society is highly intelligent and the threshold of technology application is getting lower and lower, AI will inevitably become the target and accomplice of fraudsters. In order not to be harvested by scammers, it is necessary to understand the main forms of AI fraud! When technology is used for fraud, many ordinary people may not know it. Technology has always had two sides, and returning to technology itself may be the best way to prevent it. So how should the masses prevent it?

When it comes to money, people should raise their safety awareness and confirm whether the other party is themselves by phone or video. When the real identity cannot be determined, the arrival time can be set to "2-hour arrival" or "24-hour arrival" to reserve processing time.

In addition, you can choose to send money to the other bank to avoid transferring money through social tools such as WeChat. In doing so, on the one hand, it is convenient to verify each other's information and confirm the whereabouts of the money; On the other hand, the other party can know the transfer information through SMS notification.