Ledger / 25 Mar 2025
Singapore finance director sends US$499K after deepfake Zoom call
Confirmed
Singapore Police Force statement, relayed by Mothership, says deepfakes impersonated executives.
After a WhatsApp approach posing as the CFO, the finance director joined a Zoom with deepfaked executives and moved funds to a mule account. Police traced and froze the money.
“Finance director in S'pore transfers S$670,000 to scammers who used deepfake to impersonate company's executives”Mothership.sg
Sources
- Finance director in S'pore transfers S$670,000 to scammers who used deepfakeMothership.sg · 7 Apr 2025 · secondary source
- Date
- 25 Mar 2025
- Disclosed
- 7 Apr 2025
- Actor
- unknown (criminal), as attributed by Mothership.sg
- Targets
- Unnamed multinational's Singapore finance director
- 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$499K transferred; recovered by Singapore and Hong Kong police when the scammers asked for another US$1.4M.