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Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto speaks during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia January 27, 2025. — Reuters
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President Prabo Sabento appears in an Instagram video, dressed in traditional Indonesia’s black hat and shirt, apparently addressing his people after last year’s elections.
“Who did not get aid from me? What are your needs right now?” It seems that he asks the audience in a joint clip in November.
However, when his lips move and his eyes naturally blink, the words spoken are part of a widespread Deep Fix scam, which came to the police last month, which has deceived Indonesian residents in 20 provinces.
Through this message, people trapped were asked to contact the WhatsApp number and receive aid from 250,000 to one million rupees ($ 15- $ 60), which was never implemented.
Since last year’s Indonesia elections, experts have warned about deep faxes – audio, images and videos that come from a well -known person, but are actually the work of scammers using artificial intelligence tools.
And the victims say that fraud is so sophisticated that they also leave the risk of connecting others.
“People should be more careful. Don’t be easily fooled by the greed of rewards,” said 56 -year -old Ariani, who handed over Rs 200,000 to cheating after watching a deep video from a prominent Indonesian businessman.
“I need money, but instead I was asked to send money. They also made a video call with me, as if I was talking directly to them.”
During the Southeast Asian country’s presidential campaign, Deep Fax became a prominent means of spreading both harmful and helpful misconduct for candidates.
But now that technology has come into the hands of criminals wanting to make cold, severe cash.
Wide rotation
AFP’s facts checkers have found in the account behind Prabo Clip that dozens of similar videos have been published in which Indonesian vice president Gibran Rockboming Raka shows various high profile figures.
They also promote videos Bogus Financial Aid.
Police arrested a suspect in the pocket of Rs 65 million (000 4,000) in a pocket, a policeman, Haman Beau Aji, director of the Indonesian National Cyber Crime Unit, told reporters in February.
He said that the officers detained another person involved in another scam, which also used Deep -Fix technology, disclosed without any money.
AFP’s facts check investigations revealed that the spread of such videos had been more widely accessible to the police than these two accounts.
The President’s Deep Fic Videos, a famous former general, was circulating on social media even after arrests, including dozens on the hashtag “Prabhu Shares Barkat”.
AFP journalists found that at least 22 techotok accounts were pushing for the same fraud scheme after Prabov took office in October.
An account in which more than 77,000 followers received 7.5 million views on Prabov’s fabricated video, apparently eliminating financial aid, and gaining 7.5 million ideas.
Another account with thousands of followers has shared 100 videos since January, the majority of which offers the president’s Deep Fix videos, which offers cash.
Ticketkok said it had removed the Deep Fix scam videos and its affiliated account, adding that it would continue to eliminate anyone who violated the platform’s leadership letters, which banned misleading lines.
Facebook’s parents Meta did not respond to the application for AFP feedback.
AFP, along with more than 100 other facts inspection organizations, is paid to verify social media posts via Taktok and Meta, which potentially contains false information.
More accessible
Arbu Sosmeto, co -founder of the Indonesian facts, said his team was getting new deep -fic scams every week due to the spread of online spread.
He told AFP, “We have started watching Deep Fic videos from last year as AI tools have become more accessible and cheaper.”
Schemes are on the rise using the deep fax of prominent figures.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have been involved in recent years of celebrities targeted by sophisticated imitation to advance cash scams.
Aribo said his team of factors is working harder to eliminate these scams using the latest technology available to criminals.
He added, “We have seen that the quality of these videos has improved over time. Fake and real videos have become more difficult to distinguish.”
“The challenge is the volume of these scams.”
