Hong Kong police have detained eight people accused of running a scam ring that overcame bank verification checks to open accounts by replacing images on lost identification cards with deepfakes that included scammers’ facial features.
Senior Superintendent Philip Lui Che-ho of the force’s financial intelligence and investigation division stated on Saturday that the raid was part of a citywide operation on scams, cybercrime, and money laundering that took place between April 7 and 17. Officers arrested 503 persons aged 18 to 80. Losses in the cases surpassed HK$1.5 billion (US$193.2 million.
Officers arrested the eight suspects on Thursday for allegedly using at least 21 Hong Kong identification cards that were reported lost to make 44 applications to create local bank accounts, according to Chief Inspector Sun Yi-ki of the force’s cybersecurity and technology crime branch.
“The syndicate first tried to use deepfake technology to merge the scammer’s facial features with the cardholder’s appearance, followed by uploading the scammer’s selfie to impersonate the cardholder and bypass
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