2024-04-20 09:45:39
“Be suspicious of the faces and voices on the screen.”
Tonight (the 20th), ‘I Want to Know That’ deals with the fraud crime of impersonating celebrities, ‘Stolen faces and fake traps’.
Deepfake and deepvoice, a new type of fraud crime in which celebrities’ faces and voices are synthesized using artificial intelligence to resemble the real thing, are serious.
Fake faces and voices such as Hwang Hyeon-hee, Song Hye-go, and Song Eun-i appear to induce absurd investments, and consumers are suffering great damage from such fraudulent crimes, raising an alarm in society.
To respond to deepfake fraud crimes impersonating celebrities, one way is to first be suspicious of the faces and voices on the screen. Tonight on ‘I Want to Know That’, we dig into the celebrities whose names and faces have been stolen, ‘Who are they on the screen?’ and devise measures to prevent damage.
# A person posing as ‘Hwang Hyun-hee’ induces stock investment
“How do you make 10 billion won with 300,000 won?
“In the chat room, he says he is Hwang Hyun-hee. How much of a comedy is this?”
Comedian Hwang Hyeon-hee
Hyunhee Hwang, who is living a second life as a comedian and successful individual investor, stood in front of the camera for ‘I Want to Know That’. She said that for some time now, countless accounts pretending to be her have appeared on social media, causing damage.
When I clicked on the link in the video, I was taken to a chat room that provided investment information, where a person pretending to be ‘Hwang Hyun-hee’ encouraged me to invest in stocks.
John Lee, a well-known investment expert and financier, also gave an interview, saying he had suffered similar damage. It is said that an account pretending to be him is committing fraud on social media and video platforms by encouraging investment, and an investment victim who was deceived actually went so far as to sue John Lee.
Recently, the damage from online phishing crimes impersonating celebrities such as Yoo Jae-seok and Song Eun-i amounted to about 1 trillion won. Why did so many victims fall victim to fraud?
# Deepfake Song Hye-kyo public offering project commemorative video message
“The face and the voice are the same.
“Who would say this isn’t Song Hye-kyo?”
Mr. P, victim of investment fraud
Actress Song Hye-kyo sent a video message commemorating the public offering project to the group room. Following this, a congratulatory video message from actor Jo In-seong was also uploaded. Investors who watched this video are said to have invested without any doubt in the public offering project to be used for children’s charity projects. But surprisingly, the two actors’ videos had their faces and voices manipulated using deepfake technology.
Author Park Soon-hyuk, the so-called ‘Battery Man’, who created a sensation with his work on secondary batteries. It is said that accounts impersonating him appeared on social media and video platforms, attracting many investors by recommending stock items that would rise in the future.
As the investment scale gradually increased, investors were skeptical when it was announced that they would proceed with a large-scale public stock project with a return of 400%. However, a video appeared that immediately put an end to their doubts.
# Ordinary people are also targets… Be suspicious of the faces and voices on the screen
“I was surprised when I first got a call from my daughter.
The phone number, photo screen, and voice were all the same.”
Mr. K, a victim of deep voice phishing
Mr. K said he received an urgent call from his daughter who said she had been kidnapped by a loan shark. It was clearly my daughter’s phone number and voice, but who altered my daughter’s voice in real time and how?
Mr. C, a fitness trainer, said that a Vietnamese woman whom he had never met came to him asking to repay money he had lent her. The woman said she even had a video call with him and showed her the captured photos. Has deepfake technology been combined with the so-called ‘romance scam’, which involves winning the favor of the opposite sex and stealing her money?
Deepfake is a new crime that targets not only celebrities but also ordinary people. The production team of ‘I Want to Know That’ received advice from experts and conducted real-time modulation experiments using deep voice technology.
In SBS’ ‘I Want to Know That’, which airs at 11:10 pm tonight, methods and measures to prevent new deepfake crimes are sought.
How will families react when a phone call comes in from a child or younger sibling asking for money?
‘I want to know that’ ‘Stolen faces and fake traps – who are they on the screen?’ In this episode, we explore a new type of crime that has been secretly infiltrated using deepfake videos. Directed by Lee Hyun-bin, written and composed by Oh Yu-kyung.
Reporter Park So-gi photo SBS ‘I want to know that’
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2024-04-20 09:45:39