Hong Kong company loses £20m in deepfake video conference call scam

Police investigate after employee tricked into transferring money to fraudsters posing as senior officers of her firm

Hong Kong police have launched an investigation after an employee at an unnamed company said she was duped into paying HK$200m (£20m) of her firm’s money to fraudsters in a deepfake video conference call.

The Hong Kong police force said it had received a report from a worker that she had been tricked into transferring the money by someone “posing as senior officers of the company”.