SBS' 'I Want to Know' tracks the new deepfake crime.
'I Want to Know' (hereinafter 'G-R'), which will be broadcast on the 20th, is subtitled 'Stolen faces and fake traps – who are they on the screen?', and will delve into new crimes using deepfake technology and provide prevention methods. Find out.
Hwang Hyun-hee, who is living a second life as a comedian and successful individual investor, stood in front of the 'Geual' camera. She said that for some time now, countless accounts pretending to be her have appeared on social media, causing damage. When she clicked on the link in the video, she was taken to a chat room that provided investment information, where a person posing as 'Hwang Hyeon-hee' encouraged her to invest in stocks.
Hwang Hyun-hee was taken aback, saying, “How can you make 10 billion won with 300,000 won? In the chat room, people say they are Hwang Hyun-hee. How much of a comedy is this?”
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 has amounted to about 1 trillion won. Why did so many victims fall victim to fraud?
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.
Actress Song Hye-kyo sent a video message to the group room commemorating the public offering project. Following this, actor Jo In-seong's congratulatory video message 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.
Kang Jeong-hee (pseudonym) received an urgent call from her daughter who said she had been kidnapped by a loan shark. It was clearly her daughter's phone number and voice, but who and how had her daughter's voice been altered in real time? Cho Yong-tae, a fitness trainer, said that a Vietnamese woman whom he had never met came to him to ask him to repay money he had lent him. The woman said she even had a video call with him and showed her a captured photo. She appeared to have combined deepfake technology with the so-called 'romance scam', which involves winning the favor of a person of the opposite sex and stealing her money.
Deepfake is a new crime that targets not only celebrities but also ordinary people. The 'G-R' production team received advice from experts and conducted real-time modulation experiments using deep voice technology. How will families react when a phone call comes in from a child or younger sibling asking for money?
'The Egg', which will dig into a new type of crime that has been secretly infiltrated using deepfake videos and devise prevention methods and countermeasures, will be broadcast at 11:10 pm on the 20th.
(SBS Entertainment News Reporter Kang Seon-ae)
