Time for another voice deepfake scam.
This one’s in Schwyz, in Switzerland, which makes reading of the original story somewhat difficult. But we can safely say that “Eine unbekannte Täterschaft hat zur Täuschung künstliche Intelligenz eingesetzt und so mehrere Millionen Franken erbeutet” is NOT a good thing.
And that’s millions of Swiss francs, not millions of Al Frankens.
Luckily, someone at Biometric Update speaks German well enough to get the gist of the story.
“Deploying audio manipulated to sound like a trusted business partner, fraudsters bamboozled an entrepreneur from the canton of Schwyz into transferring “several million Swiss francs” to a bank account in Asia.”
And what do the canton police recommend? (Google Translated)
“Be wary of payment requests via telephone or voice message, even if the voice sounds familiar.”
Bredemarket 