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Alleged Deepfake CFO Scam Reportedly Costs Multinational Engineering Firm Arup $25 Million
- Occurred
- Feb 2, 2024
- Published
- Jul 7, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A finance employee at the multinational engineering firm Arup was reportedly deceived into transferring $25 million by fraudsters using purported deepfake technology to impersonate the firm's CFO in a video call, according to the Hong Kong police.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Scammers
Harmed parties
- Unnamed finance employee
- Arup
Tags
- deepfake
- fraud
- conference call
- pattern of harm reporting
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Deepfake technology used to impersonate CFO and cause significant financial loss.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8