The time has come for us to make passwords for identifying each other..
This was common advice for parents in the 80s and 90s. If someone had to pick me up from school unexpectedly my parents gave them a code word to tell me to let me know it wasn't a child abduction
Right now deepfakes doesn't work well when the face is viewed from extreme angles, so you can ask them to slowly turn their face to the side or up/down as far as they can until the face is not visible. It also doesn't work well when something obstruct the face, so ask them to put their hand in their face. It also can't seem to render mouth right if you open it too wide, or stick out your tongue.
I base this from a deepfake app I tried: https://github.com/s0md3v/roop . But as the tech improves, it might be able to handle those cases in the future.
Edit: chance that the scammer use a live deepfake app like this one: https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLive . It also supports using the Insight model which only need a single well lit photo to impersonate someone.
Remember, if it’s truly life threatening, the hospital is going to do the surgery and gouge you for it later.
The time pressure is meant to prevent you from looking into it.
Hang up, call them…. Don’t just hand money over the phone.use an excuse like calling your bank or something
Fortunately, I hate videocalls and have no reason to use them, so if my friend videocalled me I'd ask what the fuck they were doing and immediately be suspicious.
I'm in the US and have a well off friend who had his Facebook hacked. The bad actors sent messages to his friends asking to borrow $500 until tomorrow because his bank accounts were locked and he needed the cash. Someone who was messaged by the bad actors posted a screenshot of a deepfaked video call he received that caused him to fall for it. Wild times we live in!
40,000 Indian rupees = $487 USD.
No. This is how you avoid the problem.
"Lemme call you back in 5 because "
If you'd lend them money you'll have their contact info. Go get a different phone and call them.
Guy who scammed his friend out of $500: oh, no it totally wasn't me man. There was a video? Weird it must have been a Randeep Fake
Source on the image? Seems to be a snippet of a longer article.
EDIT: looking up the text of the image gives me https://inshorts.com/m/en/news/kerala-man-loses-%E2%82%B940000-as-video-call-from-friend-turns-out-to-be-deepfake-1689663557129, which is just the snipped text, but points at
as the source. I get images get more engagement than links, but it's important to have the source handy.
Isn't that what we've already been using gpg for? More communication sites should implement it
Don't deep fakes always look a little clunky?
Jokes on you scammers. Can't deepfake me with a friend's face if I don't got any friends to deepfake.
I got one of these a few months ago. I could tell it was fake before I even answered, but I was curious so I pointed my own camera at a blank wall and answered. It was creepy to see my friend's face (albeit one that was obviously fake if you knew what to look for) when I answered.
"I'm not a cat."
What's my kid code?
Here’s hoping for popularising secure communication protocols. It’s gonna become a must at some point.
Easy solution: Never give money that’s requested like this. Give the money in person or not at all.
If the friend doesn’t like it they can go to the bank. If they don’t like my terms they can pay interest to them.
Sorry people, I’m not your fuckin loan officer and scams are just too easy.
Gr. It's not the technology that pisses me off. It's people forgetting the fundamental rule that everything on the internet is fake until definitively proven otherwise.
Even after proven, nothing digital should ever rise to 100% trust. Under any circumstances whatsoever. 99% is fine. 100% is never.
Hell, even real life inputs from your eyes don't get 100% trust. People are well aware their eyes can play tricks. But somehow go digital and people start trusting, even though digital is easier to corrupt than irl information in every possible way.
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