Warning of a new trick to appropriate ‘face data’: Immediately identify fraudsters through these strange actions

In recent years, the crime of fraud and appropriation of property has been complicated, causing great consequences for people. In particular, bad actors take advantage of the development of technology to carry out fraudulent tricks in cyberspace with high technology, making many people inaccessible. Among them, scams and bad intentions related to bank accounts, e-wallets… are increasingly common.

Fraudulently appropriating face data

Recently, Ho Chi Minh City Police has issued a warning about a new form of fraud related to these areas through the trick of personal identification (KYC).

Accordingly, Ho Chi Minh City Police said that now people can carry out procedures to open bank accounts and e-wallets by online form. When registering for a bank account, the online e-wallet will have a step called KYC to activate the account. The software performs personal identification by scanning the user’s face, asking the user to look straight, tilt left, tilt right, look up, look down.

The subject’s tricks are to disguise themselves as officials of authorities (police officers, tax agencies…) or relatives and acquaintances of victims (subjects using deepfake technology to disguise images and voices. say) make a video call with the victim to build trust. During a video call, by many tricks, the subject will ask the victim to look straight, tilt left, tilt right… From there, the subject will record the video and use it to open a bank account, e-wallet death in the name of the victim.

After appropriating the right to use bank accounts, e-wallets, etc., bad objects can use them for fraud purposes or other illegal acts. At this time, it is difficult for the victim to prove his innocence because he has taken the step of personal identification (KYC).

Police advise people to be wary of video calls asking to perform “strange actions” such as looking straight, leaning left, leaning right, looking up, bending down… Absolutely do not provide personal information , phone number, identity card number (citizen’s identity), residential address, bank account number, OTP code… for anyone who doesn’t know or doesn’t know their identity or background.

Public security agencies at all levels, when working, verifying, investigating, will work directly or send a written notice to that authority, individual or organization, absolutely do not work via phone and network. society. When detecting acts of fraud, people quickly report to the nearest police agency for legal handling.

It is also a trick to impersonate officers of judicial agencies (police, procuracy, court…) but fraudsters are now more sophisticated by using high technology. Illustration.

Why do people still fall into traps?

Recently, in the whole country in general, there have been many cases of fraud via the Internet, using artificial intelligence (AI) to crop images and videos, in order to fraudulently appropriate the victim’s property, causing bewilderment, anxiety.

In particular, recently, cases of property appropriation using Deepfake technology have become more complicated.

Deepfake is a combination of the words “deep learning” and “fake”, which is a method of using artificial intelligence to create fake technology products in the form of sounds (voices), images (faces). , even creating videos with the purpose of impersonating the victim’s voice and face on social networks… to deceive and appropriate property.

Despite being warned by the authorities many times, many people still fall into the trap.

In this regard, the police agency said, the reason why people are still prone to scams is that the victims do not regularly update propaganda information of the authorities, do not properly and fully identify the methods. , tricks of subjects using Deepfake technology to fraudulently appropriate property.

A part of people still have a subjective mentality, do not carefully verify by calling their relatives’ phone numbers in the usual way, after receiving messages asking to borrow money, transfer money via social networking platforms. ; even if you see the account number receiving the transfer is not in the name of your loved one.

In addition, scammers often target victims who are elderly, have little technological knowledge and are difficult to distinguish between real and fake videos; people who have little knowledge of technology, do not update news about methods and tricks of criminals using social networks to cheat, do not care about security issues… become the subject of information theft and fraud by high-tech tricks like Deepfake.

People who are in a weak psychological state (stress, anxiety…) are also easily deceived by fake information. In particular, people with great assets, high social position, business, culture … are also noticed by the objects and have a high chance of falling into scams.