Arup employee falls victim to US$25 million deepfake video call scam
21 May 2024
Engineering firm Arup has confirmed that one of its employees in Hong Kong fell victim to a deepfake video call that led them to transfer HK$200 million (US$25.6 million) of the company’s money to criminals.
It follows news from Hong Kong police in February that a worker at a then-unnamed company had been tricked by people posing as “senior officers of the company” in a video call.
They were persuaded during what appeared to the employee to be a genuine company video conference to make…